From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bijan Soleymani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? Date: 13 Feb 2003 17:02:04 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adgzalgj.fsf@server.crasseux.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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045173203 1230 80.91.224.249 (13 Feb 2003 21:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:53:23 +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 18jRIG-0000JN-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:53:20 +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 18jRK9-00073X-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:55:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!weber.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.201.123.149 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca Original-X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 1045173273 24.201.123.149 (Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:54:33 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:54:33 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110153 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:6656 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6656 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Debian has its own install-info. It writes the right dir entries, it > seems, but it /additionally/ references /var/backups. > > The Debian folk say that their install-info does exactly what Debian > needs. But I'm afraid it doesn't do what I need. I'd be happy about > a regular install-info as distributed with GNU Texinfo. But that > will never happen (I mean they never will distribute it), I'm afraid. I still don't understand the big conflict between the two versions of install-info. Why won't Debian ever distribute it? What's wrong with the version that comes with texinfo. In any case if you want the behaviour of the other install-info why not just use that during the installation procedure. Bijan