Re: Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

Hi,

On 19.08.2014, at 19:57, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:47:58 +0200, Max Horn <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

>>  cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied
>> 
>> I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact that the 
>> affected packages (e.g. grep) use the "InfoDocs" fields. I don't 
>> think a package author can do much about that, can they? As such, 
>> perhaps you could check if the above line is the only one with 
>> "permission denied", and in that case, demote the "failure" to a 
>> "warning" ?
> 
> In a packaging context, install-info should be deferred to the actual 
> live install (.deb -> %p) rather than during the writing to the staging 
> directory (InstallScript -> %i). InfoDocs automatically does the 
> former. Some build systems automatically disable install-info in the %i 
> context, but others need to be disabled explicitly by the maintainer. 
> It's always doable, but there are many variations among the build tools 
> (sometimes an autoconf flag, sometimes a make variable, sometimes 
> manually commenting out part of a makefile). 

Any hints on how to do that, or perhaps examples of packages that do that?
Many of the affected cases are actually straight GNU packages, such as
  diffutils, gawk, grep, gzip, sed


Cheers,
Max

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