can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

[Alexander Nikolov]

Hi! 
I'm afraid I'm asking stupid question but I can't see what I'm missing
out. I downloaded elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz and I tried to install it
the standard way- first I installed the texinfo
rpm(texinfo-4.2-5mdk.rpm) and then I executed 
-------------
./configure
make 
make install
------------
in the elisp-manual directory. The first two commands reported no
error but 'make install' complains that 
----------------------------------------
./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/info
make: ./mkinstalldirs: Command not found
make: *** [install] Error 127
----------------------------------------
What's wrong?

Re: can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

[Burton Samograd]

Alexander Nikolov <alexander@ip217-30.mnet.bg> writes:

> Hi! 
> I'm afraid I'm asking stupid question but I can't see what I'm missing
> out. I downloaded elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz and I tried to install it
> the standard way- first I installed the texinfo
> rpm(texinfo-4.2-5mdk.rpm) and then I executed 
> -------------
> ./configure
> make 
> make install
> ------------
> in the elisp-manual directory. The first two commands reported no
> error but 'make install' complains that 
> ----------------------------------------
> ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/info
> make: ./mkinstalldirs: Command not found
> make: *** [install] Error 127
> ----------------------------------------
> What's wrong?

I can't remember which, but one of the following programs is
responsible for putting mkinstalldirs and some other files in the
source directory:

aclocal
autoheader
automake
autoconf

You might want to try running those in order (shouldn't need any
arguments) and see if that installs them properly.  It might work and
it shouldn't do anything bad anyways (and if it does, just untar the
original source again).

-- 
burton samograd
kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org
http://kruhftwerk.dyndns.org

Re: can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexander Nikolov <alexander@ip217-30.mnet.bg>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 22 May 2003 14:32:54 +0000
> 
> I downloaded elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz and I tried to install it
> the standard way- first I installed the texinfo
> rpm(texinfo-4.2-5mdk.rpm) and then I executed 
> -------------
> ./configure
> make 
> make install
> ------------
> in the elisp-manual directory. The first two commands reported no
> error but 'make install' complains that 
> ----------------------------------------
> ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/info
> make: ./mkinstalldirs: Command not found
> make: *** [install] Error 127
> ----------------------------------------
> What's wrong?

Does elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz include mkinstalldirs in it?  If not,
it's a bug in the tarball.

Anyway, the latest version of the ELisp manual is 21-2.8, and I've
just verified that mkinstalldirs _is_ there.  So why not download the
latest version and use that instead of the old and possibly broken
one?

Re: can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

[Alexander Nikolov]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: Alexander Nikolov <alexander@ip217-30.mnet.bg>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 22 May 2003 14:32:54 +0000
> > 
> > I downloaded elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz and I tried to install it
> > the standard way- first I installed the texinfo
> > rpm(texinfo-4.2-5mdk.rpm) and then I executed 
> > -------------
> > ./configure
> > make 
> > make install
> > ------------
> > in the elisp-manual directory. The first two commands reported no
> > error but 'make install' complains that 
> > ----------------------------------------
> > ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/info
> > make: ./mkinstalldirs: Command not found
> > make: *** [install] Error 127
> > ----------------------------------------
> > What's wrong?
> 
> Does elisp-manual-21-2.6.tar.gz include mkinstalldirs in it?  If not,
> it's a bug in the tarball.
> 
> Anyway, the latest version of the ELisp manual is 21-2.8, and I've
> just verified that mkinstalldirs _is_ there.  So why not download the
> latest version and use that instead of the old and possibly broken
> one?

The latest one really seems to be working, thank you. I hope it is not
a problem that I am not using the latest release of emacs.

Re: can't install elisp-manual-21.2.6

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexander Nikolov <alexander@ip217-30.mnet.bg>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 25 May 2003 00:18:01 +0000
> 
> The latest one really seems to be working, thank you. I hope it is not
> a problem that I am not using the latest release of emacs.

It shouldn't be a problem.