RFE: gcc42 info pages

[jochen@…]

The GCC manual, i.e. the info pages, should be installed with the package. The man-pages contain only rudimentary information in the compiler usage.

Maybe this could be done as a variant, although I think the info-page manuals should always be installed along the compilers themselves.

[markd@…]

Maintainer should be cc's also since Trac doesn't do that automatically right now.

[jochen@…]

Ok, attached is an (yet untested) patch, that does not explicitly remove the info pages. Why was this done in the first place?

[jochen@…]

Okay, the attached patch to the Portfile does indeed (tested) install the info pages and add entries to the info directory file if not present. This is the behavior I'd expect from the port. If there is any reason not to install the info pages, it should be documented and the info pages should then be available as a variant at least, IMHO.

[jochen@…]

Patch for Portfile to install info pages and add them to dir file

[mww@…]

there is one problem left:

system "install-info ${prefix}/share/info/cpp.info ${prefix}/share/info/dir"

will install cpp.info, which should really be named cpp-mp-4.2.info

Is it safe to just rename the files?

[jochen@…]

No, it is not really "safe".

The best would be to patch the sources: In the .texi file the header has an entry for the .info file name:

@setfilename cpp.info

which should be changed to

@setfilename cpp-mp-4.2.info

This needs to be done before generating the info files, obviously.

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Alternatively the .info file can be patched, where this code

INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Packages
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Cpp: (cpp).            The C Preprocessor.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

has to be changed to the following, I believe:

INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Packages
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Cpp: (cpp-mp-4.2).            The C Preprocessor.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

[jochen@…]

Okay, this is what I come up with (patch attached as info-Portfile.diff): Create an info variant which installs the info pages. This is what I have used for a while now (changed in my local svn workig copy).

This is not as good as the real solution described above, but at least givs info pages for the once that explicitely request it. f course that should not be done for multiple gcc-ports.

[anonymous]

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