From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56782 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Debian's install-info Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:10:30 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080007873 7307 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 02:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 02:11:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5321@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 23 03:11:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5bNj-0004Xl-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:11:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B5bNQ-0007v3-00; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:10:48 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B5bNI-0007ux-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:10:40 -0600 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net (washington.hostforweb.net [69.61.11.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2263A004B for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:10:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yamaoka by washington.hostforweb.net with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5bNL-00041O-Vm for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:10:44 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vfnGrDqt1xMPVP0EmkrjLzrFL30= X-Hashcash: 0:040323:ding@gnus.org:a5080aeb1c296836 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32041 32041] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - washington.hostforweb.net Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56782 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56782 >>>>> In >>>>> Jesper Harder 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 * 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