Re: Updating makeinfo

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Updating makeinfo


> > I've not used my Ubuntu 14 lilypond computer for a while, and I'm
> > now trying to help update the example images on the website.  If I
> > run configure I'm being told my makeinfo is too old - I've got 5.2
> > and it requires 6.1.  I can't run the GUI updater because it just
> > tells me there's an update to Ubuntu 16 and if I don't upgrade, but
> > just click OK it exits.  If I run sudo apt-get install texinfo it
> > tells me I have the latest version.  If I download the texinfo 6.1
> > tarball, extract it, and run configure. make and make install it
> > does stuff, but makeinfo --version from my build directory still say
> > I have 5.2.
> >
> > Anyone with any suggestions for getting and installing 6.1?
>
> I guess you just have to prepend `/usr/local/bin' to your path.
> Usually, you can do this in your `~/.bashrc' file.
>
> Alternatively, assuming that you want a safe location for texinfo 6.1
> that won't get accidentally deleted or overwritten, you could try the
> following.
>
>  sudo mkdir /opt
>
>  cd texinfo-6.1
>  ./configure --prefix=/opt ...
>  make
>  make install
>
>  cd lilypond
>  PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH ./configure ...
>  PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH make doc


A bit odd.  I checked my path following your advice and /usr/local/bin was 
already there.  So I tried makeinfo --version again from my lilypond 
directory and this time it said version 6.1.  So I re-ran configure and it 
was OK.

Guess the path statement was reread when the computer was idle.

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Phil Holmes