The following reply was made to PR pkg/32909; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Gwynne <loki@animata.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32909: makeinfo issue on opensolaris when building sysutils/coreutils
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:54:42 +1000

 On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:07AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/32909; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
 > To: loki@animata.net
 > Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Subject: Re: pkg/32909: makeinfo issue on opensolaris when building sysutils/coreutils
 > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:59:39 +0000
 > 
 >  On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:40:00AM +0000, loki@animata.net wrote:
 >  > >Description:
 >  > A build of sysutils/coreutils bombs out during "bmake build" when trying to use makeinfo to make some info pages. The makeinfo in the work/.tools/bin directory (which is what the build uses) is a shell script that writes some stuff to the build log and then calls exit 1. This causes the build to fail.
 >  > >How-To-Repeat:
 >  > Go "bmake build" in sysutils/coreutils on a Solaris Express system.
 >  > >Fix:
 >  > My workaround was to replace the makeinfo shell script in work/.tools/bin with a symlink to /usr/pkg/bin/makeinfo. The build completes and the install works fine.
 >  > 
 >  > This is not a real fix though, the pkgsrc framework should use the pkgsrc texinfo version of makeinfo if the base system doesnt provide one.
 >  
 >  I'm fairly certain this was fixed in pkgsrc/mk/tools/texinfo.mk:1.11,
 >  which works around the odd target dependency graph for info files in
 >  makefiles generated by GNU automake.  Can you please let me know if a
 >  more recent pkgsrc still has this problem?
 
 i just fetched from cvs and tried to build it on solaris 10 11/06, and
 the problem still persists.
 
 sorry guys.