Re: automake + .info files help needed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Matěj Týč wrote on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:26:13PM CET:
> > 
> > Please post the output of 'make distcheck', and state which automake
> > version you're using.  Thanks.
> I use automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1
> 
> make distcheck just complains that it can't find the foo.info file so it
> can't install it (or at least it seems so). However, it builds foo.dvi
> Here is the output (simplified):

Please just post all of the output, it is often much easier for me to
see then what went wrong.

The info file should have been built in the source tree, and should be
distributed in the tarball, so if it isn't, then we need to find out why
that doesn't happen.

> install-info --info-dir='somewhere/share/info'
> 'somewhere/share/info/foo.info'
> install-info: No such file or directory for somwhere/share/info/foo.info

This is presumably only a followup error.

> the uninstall check ends with real error:
>  
>  install-info --info-dir='somewhere/share/info' --remove
> 'somewhere/share/info/foo.info'
> install-info: No such file or directory for somwhere/share/info/foo.info
> make[2]: *** [uninstall-info-am] Error 1

Likewise.

> And no foo.info file can be found anywhere...

So, is one in your source tree?

Cheers,
Ralf