Bug 31757

Summary: devel/gvd doesn't build without tex
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: hendrik <hendrik>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Ade Lovett <ade>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description hendrik 2001-11-04 22:20:01 UTC 
The devel/gvd port tries to build an .info file using tex. I don't have tex installed on this new machine so it fails building:

makeinfo --force -o gvd.info gvd.texi
makeinfo --force --no-headers --no-split -o gvd.txt gvd.texi
echo x | tex gvd.texi
tex: not found
gmake[1]: *** [doc] Error 127
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gvd/work/gvd-1.2.0-src/docs'
gmake: *** [docs] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Fix: 

Provide a prebuild .info file so tex is not needed anymore.
How-To-Repeat: Try building the devel/gvd port without tex installed.
Comment 1 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-03-12 02:42:35 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

That's not how it works.  There is a BUILD_DEPENDS on TeX, which means it's 
required only for building the port - you can always grab the package if 
you don't want to deal with building TeX and then removing it. 

As for providing prebuilt documentation, that's outside of the scope of 
the ports system, and should be taken up with the author of the software 
itself.
Comment 2 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-03-12 02:42:35 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports->ade