Re: [bug #38795] texi2any makes CR in output when input is mixed CR-LF and LF files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Vincent Belaïche)
> Cc: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> , Karl
>  Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:25:05 +0200
> 
> After your email I tried to build the latest install-info on MSWindows
> --- my install-info version is 4.11 from MSYS and it *DOES NOT* process
> CRLF well which means that it fails to find the DIRENTRY.

Yes, MSYS programs always use binary I/O mode, because they simulate a
Posix environment.  They are therefore inappropriate for installing
Info manuals on Windows, only for building those manuals.

You need to use a native Windows build of install-info.

> However I could not achieve to do that because the Makefile and
> configure are not archieved in the CVS repo, and there does not seem to
> be any windows specific hand made configure + make like for EMACS. I
> tried to re-generate the Makefile+configure but that failed also: I got
> the following error
> 
> /local/bin/autoreconf
> Can't spawn "aclocal": No such file or directory at 
> /usr/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
> autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory

This probably means you have an old version of autoconf.

Do you really want to build Texinfo yourself, or do you just need a
program that someone else built?  If the latter, you can find
precompiled binaries here:

  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-5.1-2-w32-bin.zip/download

There's a corresponding source zip there, which is already
configured.  So perhaps you will be able to build it by typing "make"
into the MSYS shell window.