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 22:10:47 +0300 Message-ID: <834n0odxvs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140517010352.GB3075@srevilak.net> <29y4y1ch8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k39ketiy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400353877 2069 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2014 19:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 19:11:17 +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 21:11:10 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 1Wlk0h-0004Ec-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 21:11:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlk0h-0004yz-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 15:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlk0Z-0004y0-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 15:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlk0O-0001wq-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 15:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:46601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlk0O-0001wX-2G; Sat, 17 May 2014 15:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5Q00800F3JON00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 May 2014 22:07:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N5Q0095TFSRJC20@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 May 2014 22:07:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:171921 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: steve@srevilak.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 14:39:47 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > 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. > > I wasn't aware ginstall-info existed anywhere else. > Do you think anyone else is likely to have it around? Anyone who once installed an old Texinfo 4.8 port to Windows, and didn't bother to delete ginstall-info.exe, will have it. That port came with both install-info.exe and ginstall-info.exe, for reasons I cannot fathom. If that's the only reasonable scenario besides Debian, perhaps we could add something specific to Windows to countermand this, so that we could still be friendly to Debian?