[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 |
Date: |
Sat, 17 May 2014 10:47:17 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:43:08 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Steve Revilak wrote:
>
> > There was one minor surprise in the Debian 7.4 installation. During
> > "make install", I received several screenfulls of
> >
> > See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
> > This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
>
>
> It is a harmless irritation. It's just what Debian's "install-info"
> program prints, every time it is called. AFAIK it's been doing it for
> years, you'd think it could stop now...
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo
>
> Anyway, I installed this to shut it up:
>
> --- a/configure.ac 2014-05-12 06:11:08 +0000
> +++ b/configure.ac 2014-05-17 01:38:33 +0000
> @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@
> LN_S="/bin/ln"
> fi
>
> -AC_PATH_PROG(INSTALL_INFO, install-info, :,
> +AC_PATH_PROGS(INSTALL_INFO, [ginstall-info install-info], :,
> $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/sbin$PATH_SEPARATOR/sbin)
> dnl Don't use GZIP, which is used by gzip for additional parameters.
> AC_PATH_PROG(GZIP_PROG, gzip)
But this will pick up ginstall-info on any system that happens to have
it, and do that in preference to install-info, won't it? E.g., on my
system, I see I have ginstall-info.exe from some ancient Texinfo
distribution, and sure enough, configure now wants to use that.
So how is this a good idea, and during the pretest on top of that?
I'd support doing this on Debian only, but not on every system out
there.