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

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 01:23:00PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> 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.

I've committed this, thank you!
 Thomas