From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 10:47:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83k39ketiy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140517010352.GB3075@srevilak.net> <29y4y1ch8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400312858 9049 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2014 07:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 07:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, steve@srevilak.net To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 09:47:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlZL8-0007hJ-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 09:47:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlZL8-0003ND-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 03:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlZL0-0003DS-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 03:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlZKu-0003IA-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 03:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlZKu-0003Hy-Ep; Sat, 17 May 2014 03:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5P00I00K5DHI00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:47:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N5P00IUUKAP4160@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:47:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <29y4y1ch8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171903 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:43:08 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Steve Revilak wrote: > > > There was one minor surprise in the Debian 7.4 installation. During > > "make install", I received several screenfulls of > > > > See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments > > This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info > > > It is a harmless irritation. It's just what Debian's "install-info" > program prints, every time it is called. AFAIK it's been doing it for > years, you'd think it could stop now... > > https://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo > > Anyway, I installed this to shut it up: > > --- a/configure.ac 2014-05-12 06:11:08 +0000 > +++ b/configure.ac 2014-05-17 01:38:33 +0000 > @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ > LN_S="/bin/ln" > fi > > -AC_PATH_PROG(INSTALL_INFO, install-info, :, > +AC_PATH_PROGS(INSTALL_INFO, [ginstall-info install-info], :, > $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/sbin$PATH_SEPARATOR/sbin) > dnl Don't use GZIP, which is used by gzip for additional parameters. > AC_PATH_PROG(GZIP_PROG, gzip) But this will pick up ginstall-info on any system that happens to have it, and do that in preference to install-info, won't it? E.g., on my system, I see I have ginstall-info.exe from some ancient Texinfo distribution, and sure enough, configure now wants to use that. So how is this a good idea, and during the pretest on top of that? I'd support doing this on Debian only, but not on every system out there.