bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files

bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files

[Francis Litterio]

The Makefile generated by configuring the latest master branch source
code contains target "install-info" which refers to deleted info files,
causing error messages from /usr/bin/install-info.  Here's the relevant
section of the Makefile (with parts elided for brevity):

install-info: info
	...
	if [ "`cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd`" = "$$exp_infodir" ]; then \
	  true; \
	else \
	   ...
	   for elt in ${INFO_NONMISC} $${info_misc}; do \
	      ...
	      for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \
	       (cd "$${thisdir}"; \
	        ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"); \
	        ...
	        ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"; \
	      done; \
	     (cd "$${thisdir}"; \
	      ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt"); \
	   done; \
	fi

This command near the end:

  ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt")

refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been
deleted by this preceding gzip command:

  ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"

because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed.
Both of these commands are in a for loop that processes every info file.
This leads to a block of errors in the output of "make install-info" of
this form, with one error for each info file being installed:

  install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/emacs.info
  install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/eintr.info
  install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/elisp.info
  install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/ada-mode.info
  ...

Oddly, file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/dir seems to contain references to all
of the installed info files, but that may be because file "dir" was
created that way during my build, because my build output contains this
line:

    GEN      info/dir
--
Fran Litterio
flitterio -at- gmail.com



In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2016-03-25 built on PUPPY
Repository revision: 368b9bb45f125061506d43af4bd4791ab2cfd7b9
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm
 --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif'

Configured features:
SOUND NOTIFY ACL TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: C.ISO-8859-1
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
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  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  save-place-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent messages:
Type "q" to delete help window.
Mark set [11 times]
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  
Type "q" to restore previous buffer. [2 times]
Type "q" to delete help window, <next> to scroll help.
a is undefined
View mode: type M-h for help, h for commands, q to quit.
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Load-path shadows:
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bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio)
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:17:07 -0400
> 
> install-info: info
> 	...
> 	if [ "`cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd`" = "$$exp_infodir" ]; then \
> 	  true; \
> 	else \
> 	   ...
> 	   for elt in ${INFO_NONMISC} $${info_misc}; do \
> 	      ...
> 	      for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \
> 	       (cd "$${thisdir}"; \
> 	        ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"); \
> 	        ...
> 	        ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"; \
> 	      done; \
> 	     (cd "$${thisdir}"; \
> 	      ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt"); \
> 	   done; \
> 	fi
> 
> This command near the end:
> 
>   ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt")
> 
> refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been
> deleted by this preceding gzip command:
> 
>   ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"
> 
> because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed.
> Both of these commands are in a for loop that processes every info file.
> This leads to a block of errors in the output of "make install-info" of
> this form, with one error for each info file being installed:
> 
>   install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/emacs.info
>   install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/eintr.info
>   install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/elisp.info
>   install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/ada-mode.info
>   ...

The above works for me here.

Could it be that your version of the install-info program doesn't
support compressed Info files?  What version of Texinfo do you have
installed?

>  'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm
>  --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif'

The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of
c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix.  This could be related to
your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says.

bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files

[Fran Litterio]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > From: flitterio <at> gmail.com (Francis Litterio)
...
> > This command near the end:
> > 
> >   ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}"
"$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt")
> > 
> > refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been
> > deleted by this preceding gzip command:
> > 
> >   ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"
> > 
> > because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed.
...
> The above works for me here.
> 
> Could it be that your version of the install-info program doesn't
> support compressed Info files?  What version of Texinfo do you have
> installed?

The output of "install-info --version" is:

   install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13

> >  'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm
> >  --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif'
> 
> The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of
> c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix.  This could be related to
> your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says.

That was the cause.  Changing my configure command to use
"--prefix /c/apps/emacs" fixes the problem on my Windows machine.
It appears that version 4.13 of MinGW/MSYS install-info is confused
by the drive letter in the pathname.  I'll pursue this with the MinGW
folks.

Thanks, Eli.
--
Fran
flitterio <at> gmail.com

bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fran Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:09:28 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> The output of "install-info --version" is:
> 
>    install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
> 
> > >  'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm
> > >  --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif'
> > 
> > The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of
> > c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix.  This could be related to
> > your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says.
> 
> That was the cause.  Changing my configure command to use
> "--prefix /c/apps/emacs" fixes the problem on my Windows machine.
> It appears that version 4.13 of MinGW/MSYS install-info is confused
> by the drive letter in the pathname.  I'll pursue this with the MinGW
> folks.
> 
> Thanks, Eli.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing the bug.