Packaging tex-xindy

[Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>]

Hi list,

Since version 8.8, coq has done something horrible to its documentation 
building process that requires me to add, remove and/or edit 
dependencies every time a new version comes out.

For 8.8.2, the problem is something called xindy, a TeX index generator. 
We've got a package for it, but that only seems to contain the scripts; 
there is an executable bit for it that is written in CLISP. TeXLive 
distributes it as a binary, it seems; there are some binary versions for 
at least netbsd-amd64 and netbsd-i386.

Running xindy at the moment just results in an error message, namely 
'cannot locate xindy.mem', which basically means that xindy can't find 
its compiled bits.

So what is the best way to go here? Package the binary blob? Try to 
revamp the package entirely and build the thing from source? Has anyone 
ever had to deal with a similar problem? Is anyone actually using 
textproc/tex-xindy successfully and am I just doing something wrong?

(FreeBSD ports doesn't seem to have xindy, so no inspiration there...)

best

  Jaap
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