* Debian's install-info
@ 2004-03-21 23:26 Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-03-23 0:25 ` Jesper Harder
2004-03-23 1:54 ` Alan Shutko
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From: Katsumi Yamaoka @ 2004-03-21 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
Does anyone know why does Gnus exclude Debian's install-info
program? Here is an extract from the texi/Makefile.in file:
install: $(INFO_DEPS)
[...]
@if $(SHELL) -c 'install-info --version | sed 1q | fgrep -s -v -i debian' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
It seems to have been imported from the emacs-lisp-intro
package. However, I couldn't find such a thing now in the Emacs
CVS head. I got a doubt about it from a Debian user. See the
following two threads:
http://thread.gmane.org/874qsl5ca5.fsf@deb02.jinr.ru
http://thread.gmane.org/yotlbrms9ubq.fsf@jpl.org
Regards,
--
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
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* Re: Debian's install-info
2004-03-21 23:26 Debian's install-info Katsumi Yamaoka
@ 2004-03-23 0:25 ` Jesper Harder
2004-03-23 2:10 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-03-23 1:54 ` Alan Shutko
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Harder @ 2004-03-23 0:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> Does anyone know why does Gnus exclude Debian's install-info
> program? Here is an extract from the texi/Makefile.in file:
>
> install: $(INFO_DEPS)
> [...]
> @if $(SHELL) -c 'install-info --version | sed 1q | fgrep -s -v -i debian' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
The newest version of automake/autoconf still produces something equivalent:
@if (install-info --version && \
install-info --version 2>&1 | sed 1q | grep -i -v debian) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
for a new project, so presumeably there is still a need for it. I
don't know why, though.
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2004-03-23 0:25 ` Jesper Harder
@ 2004-03-23 2:10 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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From: Katsumi Yamaoka @ 2004-03-23 2:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> In <m38yhsxvde.fsf@defun.localdomain>
>>>>> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> wrote:
> The newest version of automake/autoconf still produces something equivalent:
> @if (install-info --version && \
> install-info --version 2>&1 | sed 1q | grep -i -v debian) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
> for a new project, so presumeably there is still a need for it. I
> don't know why, though.
Thanks. I also found many packages exclude Debian's install-info,
and what should be mentioned specially is the following ChangeLog
entry in glibc-2.3.2:
1997-07-15 Marcus G. Daniels <marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu>
* manual/Makefile (INSTALL_INFO): Introduce variable to override
path to install-info for systems like Debian that have an
install-info with a different command line interface from the
canonical GNU texinfo version.
According to the manual/Makefile file, it seems necessary to
specify the section name to Debian's install-info program like:
install-info --info-dir=DIR --section '^Gnus:' 'Gnus:' ./gnus
Although Artiom Neganov wrote that the present install-info of
Debian works with the same command line arguments as the GNU
version, I leave the solution to Debian maintainers since I'm
not a Debian user.
;; I'll forward this message to Artiom Neganov and the emacs-w3m
;; list.
--
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
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* Re: Debian's install-info
2004-03-21 23:26 Debian's install-info Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-03-23 0:25 ` Jesper Harder
@ 2004-03-23 1:54 ` Alan Shutko
2004-03-24 8:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alan Shutko @ 2004-03-23 1:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> Does anyone know why does Gnus exclude Debian's install-info
> program? Here is an extract from the texi/Makefile.in file:
Debian uses an install-info program which is not compatible with the
GNU version. Or, at least, used to. There were some murmurings
about switching or making them compatible, but I don't believe
it's happened.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
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* Re: Debian's install-info
2004-03-23 1:54 ` Alan Shutko
@ 2004-03-24 8:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-16 14:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kai Grossjohann @ 2004-03-24 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> Debian uses an install-info program which is not compatible with the
> GNU version. Or, at least, used to. There were some murmurings
> about switching or making them compatible, but I don't believe
> it's happened.
Emacs (CVS version) invokes install-info in a way that does something
useful for both the GNU and Debian flavors. I guess Gnus could do the
same.
WDYT?
Kai
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* Re: Debian's install-info
2004-03-24 8:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
@ 2004-05-16 14:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2004-05-16 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> writes:
> Emacs (CVS version) invokes install-info in a way that does something
> useful for both the GNU and Debian flavors. I guess Gnus could do the
> same.
>
> WDYT?
Sounds like a good thing. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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