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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make install-info error messages
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:40:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40941.1343439639@gregair> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:02:09 +0200." <87txwtrske.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

Achim,

thanks for the reply.

here's the install-info version.  (i'm afraid i wasn't aware that
install-info was a local utility; i assumed it was part of the build
system for org or ...)
----
bash greg-minshalls-mbp: {1057} install-info --version
Debian install-info 1.10.21.  Copyright (C) 1994,1995
Ian Jackson.  This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty.
----

cheers, Greg Minshall
----
>> install-info(doc/org): replacing existing dir entry for `org'
>> cp: /var/backups/infodir.bak: Permission denied
>> install-info(doc/org): couldn't backup /Users/minshall/usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> What does 'install-info --version' say?  This is most certainly not GNU
> install-info or there's a wrapper around it.  In any case there should
> probably be a switch to skip the backup for non-administrative users or
> another version of install-info (try ginstall-info, perhaps) that
> doesn't try to work with system files.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-28  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27  9:17 make install-info error messages Greg Minshall
2012-07-27 18:02 ` Achim Gratz
2012-07-28  1:40   ` Greg Minshall [this message]
2012-07-28  4:56     ` Achim Gratz
2012-07-28 10:49       ` Greg Minshall

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