Bug 251829

Summary: Mk/bsd.port.mk: .info files install to GNU_CONFIGURE_PREFIX, but packaged from PREFIX
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov>
Component: Ports FrameworkAssignee: Port Management Team <portmgr>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: portmgr, ports-bugs, tcberner
Priority: --- Flags: linimon: maintainer-feedback? (portmgr)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Damjan Jovanovic 2020-12-14 01:23:56 UTC
When GNU_CONFIGURE_PREFIX and PREFIX differ, .info files are installed to GNU_CONFIGURE_PREFIX:

            _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS="$${_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS} --infodir=${GNU_CONFIGURE_PREFIX}/${INFO_PATH}/${INFO_SUBDIR}" ; \

yet packaged from PREFIX instead:

add-plist-info:
.for i in ${INFO}
        @${LS} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/${INFO_PATH}/$i.info* | ${SED} -e s:${STAGEDIR}:@info\ :g >> ${TMPPLIST}
.endfor

This will not work, no matter what the value of INFO_PATH is. Neither can a custom --infordir be set for LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS.
Comment 1 Tobias C. Berner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-07 16:26:41 UTC
Moin moin 

Do you have a port where this is an issue, and is it still relevant?


mfg Tobias