Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:03:15 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> After unpacking, I made two changes to my (working with man build)
> pkgsrc setup:
> 
>   In SConscript, look for asciidoctor26fail, so it won't be found
>   (because that seemed easier than uninstalling it).
> 
>   pass manbuild=auto

Why not "manbuild=yes"?

> The check for asciidoctor fails, and adoc_prog is Null.  Everything
> builds but the as-shipped built man pages are not installed and I can
> see this in line 2310 of SConscript that the install is conditioned on
> the build.

As expected.

> This is what I mean about schemes to maybe build maybe not and install
> pre-built things from distfiles being tricky.

Yes, packaging is hard.

> When you  make a tarball on a system with asciidoctor, and unpack and
> build it on a system without, and install, do you get installed man
> pages?

Dunno, Give it a try.

RGDS
GARY
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