Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:20:18 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
>     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.

Maybe I did, but didn't complain for some reason (e.g., because 4.13
was then quite old and a new shining version was long in the works
about which I had no idea).  The problem is still real.

> 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.

Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems.  'mktemp' is part of
GNU Coreutils in latest versions.

>     If the package is not relocatable, 
> 
> Very few GNU packages are relocatable, in my experience.

But makeinfo was, until now, because it didn't need to read any files
for its job.