Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 14:00:01 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> 1. Remove the current info directory file (c:/usr/share/info/dir).
> 2. From bash, execute the command (taken from the Makefile) to re-generate it:
> 
>   /bin/install -c -m 644 /c/emacs/mybranch/info/dir /c/usr/share/info/dir
> 
> This generates an info directory file which has only UNIX-type EOLs,
> and which also has a bit different contents (I'm attaching both
> versions).

But that's not the issue.  The issue is not with /bin/install, which
basically just copies its argument files, the issue is with
/bin/install-info, which _modifies_ c:/usr/share/info/dir by reading
the Info files, which were copied:

      cd ${srcdir}/info ; \
      for elt in ${INFO_NONMISC} $${info_misc}; do \
	 test "$(HAVE_MAKEINFO)" = "no" && test ! -f $$elt && continue; \
	 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); \
	   ( [ -n "${GZIP_INFO}" ] && [ -n "${GZIP_PROG}" ] ) || continue ; \
	   rm -f $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f.gz; \
	   ${GZIP_PROG} -9n $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f; \
	 done; \
	(cd $${thisdir}; \
	 ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir=$(DESTDIR)${infodir} $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt); \
      done)

That's why you get a different DIR file: because install-info was not
invoked.

Perhaps try installing Info files without compressing them, like this:

  make install prefix=/c/usr GZIP_INFO=

Maybe the problem with EOL format only happens when install-info
invokes gzip to decompress the files.

Failing that, I see no other alternative but to use a native port of
Texinfo.