[MacPorts] #25151: info menus are not displayed

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#25151: info menus are not displayed
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 Reporter:  idoadam@…           |       Owner:  vinc17@…           
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                     
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.8.2              
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  texinfo            
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Comment(by vinc17@…):

 It's strange that with INFOPATH unset, you don't get the files in
 /usr/share/info for the menus (on my machine I get them). Anyway this is
 not really what one wants.

 I think the problem is the following. With MacPorts, "make install"
 installs files in the destroot directory, so that the "dir" file would be
 created there (actually this file doesn't seem to be created at all with
 MacPorts while it is created when I build/install software outside
 MacPorts, even though the install-info command line is the same up to
 $prefix).

 There have already been discussions in the mailing-lists. For instance,
 gsl has (had):
 {{{
 post-install    {
     system "install-info ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/gsl-ref.info
 ${prefix}/share/info/dir"
 }
 }}}
 even though the correct way would be to have something like post-activate
 and post-deactivate.

 In any case, the texinfo port cannot do anything. This is up to the
 various ports having info manuals (or the MacPorts base) to handle that.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25151#comment:4>
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