From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:26:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcvckm0s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4397.1310165406@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> I'm actually hoping that nothing of the sort will be needed, but given
> that I don't have either debian squeeze or slackware available, I can't
> really see what goes wrong.
Well, I've had a look on some server I have admin access to: what goes
wrong on Debian (Lenny+Backports) is this:
# install-info --version
Debian install-info Version 1.14.31.
# ginstall-info --version
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
The Makefile obviously expects a GNU install-info (which should probably
be documented someplace). Now, install-info lives in /usr/sbin/ and
ginstall-info in /usr/bin, also linked to /usr/bin/install-info. But if
you're installing as root (something I don't really fancy, but it's
probably too late for Linux to rectify that), /usr/sbin/ is earlier in
your path than /usr/bin.
So, in this particular case it should be sufficient to just drop /sbin
and /usr/sbin from the PATH during make.
> As for /etc/issue, you are probably right: I never touch it but that
> means nothing. OTOH, it does illustrate how to make Makefiles do stupid
> pet tricks.
A Makefile is not the place to pull stunts, IMHO. Whenever you feel
that should become necessary, maybe it's time to go autoconf or some
similar mechanism. I don't think that's the right thing to do for
org-mode, since it again adds some dependency on other software.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-09 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 1:11 patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem Jude DaShiell
2011-07-07 14:42 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 7:33 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-08 8:21 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 9:10 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-08 9:29 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 10:08 ` Andrea Crotti
2011-07-08 22:07 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-08 22:50 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-09 6:26 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2011-07-09 8:38 ` Bastien
2011-07-09 16:00 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-09 16:40 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-09 20:45 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 1:40 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-10 1:44 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-10 8:16 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 7:24 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-10 8:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 8:40 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-08 10:34 ` Jambunathan K
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