Re: patch makefile solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I'm on my slackware system right now.  Here's the contents of /etc/issue 
and I left this as the out of the box default:
Welcome to \s \r (\l)

I had to do git close with the line in the installation notes to get 
org-mode to update.  The git program refused to overwrite the original 
Makefile.  So having done that I ran make all sudo make install sudo 
make install-info and there were no errors or warnings of any kind.  
info org tells me org documentation is at 7.6 now too.

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Achim Gratz wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> > My worry is this: before Achim's patch, the "other" systems run the
> > following command:
> >
> > 	$(INSTALL_INFO) --info-file=$(INFOFILES) --info-dir=$(infodir)
> 
> The invocation with --info-files is only understood by GNU install-info,
> that was presumably the reason for introducing the extra target
> install-info-debian.
> 
> > I presume without trouble. After his patch, they run
> >
> > 	$(INSTALL_INFO) --infodir=$(infodir) $(INFOFILES)
> 
> This invocation does the same thing (per the man and info manuals) on
> GNU install-info, but is also compatible with the older install-info
> supplied by Debian, which does not know about some options of GNU info.
> So whichever install-info gets chosen (since we cannot know what $PATH
> is set to) should work.  If it is GNU install-info, then the warning
> message is printed that we actually called a wrapper script that hands
> off its arguments to ginstall-info.  If it is the dpkg install-info,
> then we get a bunch of verbose output that GNU install-info doesn't
> produce, but it also results in a working info page.
> 
> > Does the install-info on other systems really grok the --infodir option?
> > Isn't it just straight GNU install-info? What am I missing?
> 
> On Windows you can either have MSys or Cygwin to get install-info.  Both
> really are GNU install-info, so unless there is yet another install-info
> I don't see why this would not work.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
>