Re: [Fencepost-users] GNU Texinfo upgrade

[Brandon Invergo]

Hi Bruno,

> As described in https://gnu.org/software/devel.html, I sourced the
> /gd/gnu/gnusys/live/setup script hoping to have access to a recent
> version of makeinfo program.  However, I couldn't find one.  

I apologize that the /gd/gnu/gnusys/live installation is in a bit of
flux right now.  I suspended all building cron jobs until I could iron
out some problems in GSRC.  I think everything's ready to go again but I
just moved so I don't have internet at home at the moment.  I plan to
take care of it in the next week or so, hopefully.

> The GNU package I'm working on is GNU ccd2cue which requires GNU
> Texinfo 5.1 or 5.2 (I'm not quite sure which one).  Is there any
> procedure I can take, perhaps using GNU gsrc to get such a makeinfo
> binary running on fencepost, or do I need to build manually from
> source inside my home directory?

You can certainly set up your own instance of GSRC in your home
directory on fencepost; I do it myself.  Just checkout the bzr repo
somewhere in your home repository:

    $ bzr checkout bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/gsrc/trunk/ gsrc

Then go through the following setup inside the gsrc directory:

    $ ./bootstrap
    $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gnu
    $ make install

or set the prefix to wherever you want in $HOME, of course; the last
'make install' installs the documentation and the (optional) gsrc script
to the prefix you selected.  You'll find the setup.sh script inside the
gsrc directory; personally, I move it to $HOME/gnu and then I just
source it in my .bashrc file.

Then you can just install the latest texinfo like so:

    $ make -C gnu/texinfo install

You can keep up-to-date with the latest software versions by updating
the bzr repo.

Let me know if you have any problems!

-brandon


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Brandon Invergo
http://brandon.invergo.net

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