Generating INDEX file suitable for (media)/packages/INDEX ?

Wesley Shields wxs at atarininja.org
Fri Dec 21 19:03:09 EST 2007


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:54:11PM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 15:26 , Wesley Shields wrote:
>> 
>> What makes you think 'make index' require perl?  My understanding of the
>> Makefile's indicates it doesn't use perl at all.
>> 
>> What exactly are you seeing which leads you to believe perl is required?
> 
> Umm.  Line 128 of /usr/ports/Makefile:
> 
> [...]
> cat $${tmpdir}/${INDEXFILE}.desc.* | (cd ${.CURDIR} ; perl 
> ${.CURDIR}/Tools/make_index) | \
> [...]

Doh, I must have missed that.  My apologies.

-- WXS


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