Re: alternative "info" reader (was: kernel makeoptions)

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

from eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen):

> "Thomas Mueller" writes:
> - I went to pkgsrc on the WWW, found misc/pinfo, went from there to
> - the web site for pinfo, downloaded the source code for pinfo-0.6.10,
> - which is a newer version than what is in pkgsrc.  Now I intend to
> - build for Linux, not using pkgsrc.

> Please submit a PR,   perhaps with patches, noting that pinfo
> has been updated.

When I get to it, I will.  Linux build will not be with pkgsrc.  
I have other things to build too, including the new hplip-3.11.1

There are other things way behind or nonexisting in pkgsrc, including hpijs,
which I guess now would be hplip, and the old version in pkgsrc looks to be
useless for my printer, and many of the newer HP printers.

Also, packages more for Linux like lilo (now 23.1), binutils (now 2.21),
coreutils (now 8.10).

Only yesterday, I was trying to build vlc for NetBSD, it went for 12 hours, 
including my sleeping time, and was stopped by missing dependencies that pkgsrc 
missed:

x11-xcb, dirac, schroedinger, shout, libva, libmodplug and others.

I got a bundle of warnings, followed by Error and Stop, found only about 500 MB
remained free in NetBSD partition, now 2 GB after "make clean" and 
"make clean-depends".

I still want to see if I can build math/gnumeric and www/seamonkey, these, and
hplip, take priority over vlc.

On a new computer, there will be much more disk space and much more RAM!

Tom