Installing ports without info files

[John Hein]

Ian Lepore wrote at 14:53 -0600 on Sep 16, 2013:
 > On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:50 +0200, Mattia Rossi wrote:
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > I've build a world with the following constraints: -DWITHOUT_INFO
 > > -DWITHOUT_MAN -DWITHOUT_SHAREDOCS -DWITHOUT_EXAMPLES -DWITHOUT_HTML
 > >
 > > as I don't need that stuff. Turns out, this prevents tools like
 > > install-info being built.
 > > Now trying to build devel/gettext I can't get it installed, as it always
 > > wants to install info files using install-info, which of course fails.
 > >
 > > How do I tell the system not to build info files (or manpages or all of
 > > the stuff above I don't want in the first place) when building ports?
 > >
 > > I've tried with "make -DWITHOUT_INFO install" as well as with putting
 > > WITHOUT_INFO=yes in make.conf.
 > >
 > > Gettext will still fail to install.
 > > Is this a gettext problem? Or a generic ports problem?
 > >
 > > I'm running current on arm (thanks again to freebsd-arm people for
 > > fixing it):
 > > FreeBSD dreamplug 10.0-ALPHA1 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 #15 r255499M:
 > >
 > > It's also not possible to "make index" for INDEX-10 if you use a
 > > stripped-down ports tree (none of the language ports), as there are some
 > > dependencies in the tree to french (cad-astk) and russian (stardict-*)
 > > which obviously can't be resolved.
 > >
 > > Help is appreciated!
 > >
 > > Cheers,
 > >
 >
 > I fought with the info problem for a few hours at $work and never got it
 > resolved, I had to remove the WITHOUT_INFO so that the tools would be
 > there to let ports build, and then rely on an mtree pruning script to
 > keep the actual info files out of the filesystem image.
 >
 > -- Ian

I have a patch for this that was going to go through a ports
run, but stalled in the machine.

I'll dig it out.