From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:18:17 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E4A73C9.9090605@ihs.com> References: <84k7g9jxte.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84heb9apbx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045067839 8837 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 16:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18izcB-000107-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18izcQ-0005Pp-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045066690 45421480 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110087 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6591 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6591 Kai Großjohann wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >>Find out why install-info is referencing /var/backups. It's probably being >>passed explicity from the Makefile, so perhaps its a configure parameter. It >>does seem odd that it has apparently ignored your >>--prefix=/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0 parameter, though. > > Debian has its own install-info. It writes the right dir entries, it > seems, but it /additionally/ references /var/backups. ln -s /tmp /var/backups -- Kevin Rodgers