Re: Build fails: "sane-backends", "libggi", "libgii" on netbsd-8/amd64

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, John D. Baker wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, John D. Baker wrote:
> 
> > "graphics/sane-backends" fails during the build phase with:
> > 
> > [...]
> > Generating index for sane.tex...
> > no: not found
> > Makefile:965: recipe for target 'sane.ind' failed
> 
> This appears to be a configure error.  The Makefile generated from
> "Makefile.am" and "Makefile.in" is setting:
> 
>   LATEX = no
> 
> intead of setting it to the path to the 'latex' program (/usr/pkg/bin/latex).

"graphics/sane-backends/Makefile.common" sets:

  CONFIGURE_ENV+=         ac_cv_path_LATEX="no"

presumedly to tell "sane-backends" to not produce LaTeX documentation,
but it seems the mechanism has changed and it is taking the path literally
instead of a hint to not produce LaTeX documentation.

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