From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: print/texinfo renames info files unnecessarily so 'info gtexinfo' doesn't work
To: Chris Billington <cbillington@emulti.net>, <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:57:41 +0000

I think I understand what you're saying, but to make it clear, please send 
a diff.

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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 4 December 2025 11:29:28 Chris Billington <cbillington@emulti.net> wrote:

> I noticed that the print/texinfo port (7.1) renames the executables to
> 'gtexinfo', 'gtexi2any' and so on, to avoid conflict with the older
> version 4.2 of texinfo in Base.
>
> A post-install target is also used to prefix the .info files installed
> in /usr/local/info with 'g':
>
>   cd ${PREFIX}/info && for i in *.info*; do mv $$i g$$i; done
>
> However, after this renaming, 'info gtexinfo' and 'ginfo gtexinfo'
> (etc...) do not work, because the metadata in the source .texi files
> still refers to the original executable names. This metadata is put into
> /usr/local/info/dir, and the renamed files are not found.
>
> Removing the Makefile post-install line to rename the .info files
> restores expected operation, that is:
>
> 'info texinfo' gives the info file for Texinfo 4.2 in base
> 'info gtexinfo' gives the info file for Texinfo 7.1 from ports.
> 'info 'gtexi2any' gives a manpage, but there is an up-to-date section
> in 'info gtexinfo' that covers it, which is how I think it's supposed
> to be.
> 'info ginfo-stnd' works OK.
>
> I have tested the tweak on 7.8 Release/amd64.
>
> --
> Chris Billington