From: Chris Billington <cbillington@emulti.net>
Subject: Re: print/texinfo renames info files unnecessarily so 'info gtexinfo' doesn't work
To: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc: <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 20:12:49 +0800

Sorry, forgot to include the PLIST, which needs updating.
Is there a standard procedure for making diffs to send to the list? I
couldn't find one in the handbook. Should it be based in /usr/ports,
one per file, or a single diff for all changes?

--- /usr/ports/print/texinfo/pkg/PLIST  Mon Sep 23 23:34:41 2024
+++ pkg/PLIST   Thu Dec  4 19:12:33 2025
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
 bin/gtexi2dvi
 bin/gtexi2pdf
 bin/gtexindex
-info/ginfo-stnd.info
-info/gtexi2any_api.info
-info/gtexi2any_internals.info
-info/gtexinfo.info
-info/gtexinfo.info-1
-info/gtexinfo.info-2
-info/gtexinfo.info-3
+info/info-stnd.info
+info/texi2any_api.info
+info/texi2any_internals.info
+info/texinfo.info
+info/texinfo.info-1
+info/texinfo.info-2
+info/texinfo.info-3
 lib/texinfo/
 @comment lib/texinfo/MiscXS.la
 @so lib/texinfo/MiscXS.so

On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 20:05:19 +0800
Chris Billington <cbillington@emulti.net> wrote:

> --- Makefile.orig       Thu Dec  4 20:03:03 2025
> +++ Makefile    Thu Dec  4 19:59:32 2025
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  COMMENT =              official documentation format of the GNU
> project 
>  DISTNAME =             texinfo-7.1
> -REVISION =             1
> +REVISION =             2
>  
>  CATEGORIES =           print
>  
> @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
>  
>  # gtexindex is a shell script which hardcodes texindex.awk
>  post-install:
> -       cd ${PREFIX}/info && for i in *.info*; do mv $$i g$$i; done
>         cd ${PREFIX}/share/texinfo && mv gtexindex.awk texindex.awk
>  
>  .include <bsd.port.mk>
> 
> 
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:57:41 +0000
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think I understand what you're saying, but to make it clear,
> > please send a diff.
> > 
> > -- 
> >   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  
> >   
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Billington


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Chris Billington