Re: emacs23* fails to install due to PostInstScript

On 12/26/17 12:18 PM, Derek Homeier wrote:
> On 25 Dec 2017, at 11:50 am, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In fink-run-directories:
>> ../../../share/emacs23/site-lisp/fink-startup.el:129:25:Warning: `mapcar'
>>     called for effect; use `mapc' or `dolist' instead
>> Wrote /sw/share/emacs23/site-lisp/fink-startup.elc
>> sh: /sw/share/info/emacs-23/*.info.gz: No such file or directory
>> install-info(/sw/share/info/emacs-23/*.info.gz): read gzip -cd </sw/share/info/emacs-23/*.info.gz |: 256
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--install):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> emacs23
>>
>>
>> The info files for emacs-23 are not gzipped (as in emacs24,emacs25).
>> This was introduced here:
>> https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/commit/8e8509e2246d05bd9603bfd89bdb77d8c317bc13#diff-bd51196878bd7e5ef7f32b0190ed39daR173
>>
>> Fixing it should be easy, but I wanted to confirm it's broken elsewhere before I do.
>>
> Confirmed here; also they don’t have a .info suffix. I got it to build with
> 
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
>   
>   	# Since we're placing our info files in a subdirectory of %p/share/info
>   	# we need to manually add each doc to the info dir-file
> -	for file in $(basename %p/share/info/emacs-23/*.info.gz)
> +	for file in $(basename %p/share/info/emacs-23/[a-z]*)

I solved it with

	for file in $(basename %p/share/info/emacs-23/* | grep -v ^dir$)'

since the `dir' directory is created by install-info and has to be 
ignored when installing/removing emacs23.

Hanspeter

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