From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56779 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Debian's install-info Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:25:17 +0100 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 1080001686 27766 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 00:28:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5318@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 23 01:28:00 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 1B5Zlv-0008Qp-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:27:59 +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 1B5ZkW-0007KA-00; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:26:32 -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 1B5ZkO-0007K4-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:26:24 -0600 Original-Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.235]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E44D3A0043 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:26:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from [195.249.83.72] (0xc3f95348.esnxr2.ras.tele.dk [195.249.83.72]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE1047FE3B for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:26:19 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:26:49 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56779 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56779 Katsumi Yamaoka 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.