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Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:55:23 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:20:18PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     requires a non-standard 'mktemp' command
> 
> The install-info tests using mktemp have been part of Texinfo since
> before 4.13, at least.  I'm surprised you did not have a problem with it
> before.
> 
> I see from (autoconf)Limitations of Usual Tools that it's feasible
> enough to emulate it.  But every other system I have ever seen in the
> last X years has it (and no one else has ever reported not having it).
> Sigh.
> 
>     If the package is not relocatable, 
> 
> Very few GNU packages are relocatable, in my experience.  But anyway,
> perhaps it is plausible to have makeinfo find itself wherever it happens
> to be.  Patrice and I will talk about it.

I have implemented search of modules relative to the texi2any script
(searching in ../share/texinfo).

Should something similar be done for txixml2texi and pod2texi?

-- 
Pat



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