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

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

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, John D. Baker wrote:

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

While the above was sufficient in the previous version, this is no longer
the case with v1.0.27.  The "sane.ind:" target in "${WRKSRC}doc/Makefile"
expects to run $(LATEX) first, then run $(MAKEINDEX) on it, thus the
failure.

Forcing MAKEINDEX to "no" with:

  CONFIGURE_ENV+=         ac_cv_path_MAKEINDEX="no"

makes it work.  The various options for building API_SPEC documentation
all presume some subset of TeX tools available.  The value of MAKEINDEX
is the only thing that is common to all decision branches.

I just completed a test build with the above variable set in
"sane-backends/Makefile.common" and the build succeeded.

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