new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports

[Steve Franks]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> Steve Franks wrote:
>>
>> I must be missing something obvious.  About 25% of my dependencies
>> fail to install with errors like:
>>
>> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file"
>> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed"
>>
>> system is 7.0/i386
>>
>> Steve
>
> "info" is GNU-related.  Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp.
> "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far?
> (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected
> or commented out ...)
>

All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk
1.  No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot
onto the new disk.  I'm somewhere between user and power user.  I have
5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop
(I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq).

> And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're
> all GNU for starters).  They aren't Linuxolator stuff?
>

Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages?  I don't even
know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator.

(!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and
that's pretty darn basic, no?

Steve