From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Griswold Subject: Re: make install-info fails for 6.08c Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:14:44 -0400 Message-ID: <87skr977ej.fsf@cantor.griswold.home> References: <41c818190810060933h12e5d0f7w9232d1a5e9b7f07@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmxQ2-000208-3S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:15:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmxQ0-0001zT-Bj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:15:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50880 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmxQ0-0001zP-6p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:15:04 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48349 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmxQ0-00057a-1V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:15:04 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KmxPr-00031H-RV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:14:55 +0000 Received: from cpe-67-242-215-243.rochester.res.rr.com ([67.242.215.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:14:55 +0000 Received: from dgriswol by cpe-67-242-215-243.rochester.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:14:55 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I saw this, too. And I determined two things: 1. If you use a Debian (or, possibly, a Debian based distro), it will fail unless modified; 2. Extra intervention appears required for the info file to be fully accessible. Details: 1. The Makefile uses GNU install-info. In Debian, "install-info" is part of the dpkg package, and thus different. Setting INSTALL_INFO to "ginstall-info" solved this problem for me. (ginstall-info is part of the texinfo package, and is Debian's name for GNU's install-info.) 2. However, the [g]install-info command as called by "make install-info" was not entirely complete, as it did not copy the info file (doc/org) into info_dir directory, but only updated the main Info file ("/usr/local/info/dir"). I got things working by manually copying doc/org to /usr/local/info/. Possible solution: Use these lines in place of the two beginning on line 55 of the Makefile: # Name of the program to install info files if [ `which ginstall-info ` ] ; then INSTALL_INFO=ginstall-info; else INSTALL_INFO=install-info; fi And add this line to the install-info section of the Makefile: cp $(INFOFILES) $(infodir) Of course, I might just be showing my ignorance on some of this stuff. I'm willing to be corrected. Thanks, Dan -- -------------- Dan Griswold Rochester, NY --------------