Re: pkg/32909: makeinfo issue on opensolaris when building sysutils/coreutils

[David Gwynne <loki%animata.net@localhost>]

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@localhost>
> To: loki%animata.net@localhost
> Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> 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@localhost 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.