Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> 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.