make install fails

make install fails

[dhruv kumar]

Hi there,
I was trying to port emacs (21-2) to Interix. Though porting was 
successfull, command "make install" failed.
  It failed while looking for executable "install-info"
Make file assigns "INSTALL_INFO" to "install-info", but there is no 
executable/script named so.
  Is this executable/script created on the fly, If so where ?
  Or it is there in tar ball (atleast i couldn't find it in tar -ball).


Thanks and BR
Dhruv Kumar






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Re: make install fails

[Jesper Harder]

"dhruv kumar" <dhruv_kmr@hotmail.com> writes:

>   It failed while looking for executable "install-info"
> Make file assigns "INSTALL_INFO" to "install-info", but there is no
> executable/script named so.
>   Is this executable/script created on the fly, If so where ?
>   Or it is there in tar ball (atleast i couldn't find it in tar -ball).

`install-info' is an executable which is part of Texinfo.  It isn't
included with Emacs.  This is what it does:

,----
|   `install-info' inserts menu entries from an Info file into the
| top-level `dir' file in the Info system (see the previous sections for
| an explanation of how the `dir' file works).  It's most often run as
| part of software installation, or when constructing a `dir' file for
| all manuals on a system.
`----