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* Emacs pretest 24.3.91
@ 2014-05-12  7:04 Glenn Morris
  2014-05-17  1:03 ` Steve Revilak
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-12  7:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


The next pretest for what will be the 24.4 release of Emacs
(the extensible text editor) is available at

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.91.tar.xz

Please give it as much testing as you can.

As always, if you encounter problems building or using Emacs,
send a report to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org with full details
(if possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug).

Thanks for helping to test Emacs.



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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-12  7:04 Emacs pretest 24.3.91 Glenn Morris
@ 2014-05-17  1:03 ` Steve Revilak
  2014-05-17  1:43   ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Steve Revilak @ 2014-05-17  1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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> The next pretest for what will be the 24.4 release of Emacs
> (the extensible text editor) is available at
> 
>  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.91.tar.xz
> 
> Please give it as much testing as you can.

Hi all,

I've installed the 24.3.91 pretest on three systems

-- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.9) of 2014-05-12 on srevilak-l

-- openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)
GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.22) of 2014-05-16 on sunny

-- Debian 7.4
GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2014-05-16 on srevilak


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

I haven't noticed any ill-effects from this (i.e., info mode seems to
work properly), but the screenfulls of warnings were a bit of a
surprise.

Steve

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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17  1:03 ` Steve Revilak
@ 2014-05-17  1:43   ` Glenn Morris
  2014-05-17  7:05     ` Sven Joachim
  2014-05-17  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-17  1:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steve Revilak; +Cc: emacs-devel

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)




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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17  1:43   ` Glenn Morris
@ 2014-05-17  7:05     ` Sven Joachim
  2014-05-17  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Sven Joachim @ 2014-05-17  7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel, Steve Revilak

On 2014-05-17 03:43 +0200, Glenn Morris wrote:

> 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...

I filed a bug report[1] to that end.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748433



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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17  1:43   ` Glenn Morris
  2014-05-17  7:05     ` Sven Joachim
@ 2014-05-17  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
  2014-05-17 18:39       ` Glenn Morris
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2014-05-17  7:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel, steve

> 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.



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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-05-17 18:39       ` Glenn Morris
  2014-05-17 19:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
  2014-05-18  1:53         ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-17 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel, steve

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?

> I'd support doing this on Debian only, but not on every system out
> there.

I don't like that idea. I'd rather just revert it.



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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17 18:39       ` Glenn Morris
@ 2014-05-17 19:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
  2014-05-18  1:53         ` Stefan Monnier
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2014-05-17 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel, steve

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



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* Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91
  2014-05-17 18:39       ` Glenn Morris
  2014-05-17 19:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-05-18  1:53         ` Stefan Monnier
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-05-18  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: Eli Zaretskii, steve, emacs-devel

> I don't like that idea. I'd rather just revert it.

Reverting is OK: after all, Debian just issues a harmless warning and it's
been that way for a long time now, so it's not clear that it needs to be
"fixed".


        Stefan



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