Re: Info file generation or installation is broken

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Barry <barrykp@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:42:17AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Apparently, images are no longer copied when doing
>> >
>> > make install-info
> I always work in a terminal so I wouldn't notice the missing images, but
> anyway I always assumed our info install was broken.
>
> I never knew about the install-info make target. Right now, if I run
> `make install', when it completes it will print a message with the
> install-info command I need to run. Something like this:
>
> install-info --info-dir=~/.local/share/info
> ~/.local/share/info/lilypond-web.info
>
> Running that always fails because the lilypond-web.info file doesn't
> exist. So I wrote some hack of a script that generates a dir file and
> just uses that directory. It would be nice not to have to do that.

The info installation as part of "make all install" is without images.
That's suitable for text terminal info clients, but when using Emacs
under X as an info client, the doc is so much inferior without the
images that it isn't funny.  "make info install-info" (typically split
between two make runs and using sudo just with the install-info target)
is supposed to create and install the info files including images.

But it has stopped doing that apparently.

-- 
David Kastrup