From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:00:45 -0400 Message-ID: <28121.1310227245@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <8739ii885d.fsf@gnu.org> <21342.1310116208@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87k4bsfmuv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <4397.1310165406@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87vcvckm0s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfZxp-0004Lj-3O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:01:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfZxn-0007QJ-AQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:01:04 -0400 Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.5]:48245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfZxm-0007Q6-TW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:01:03 -0400 Received: from alphaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LO200J8ZPT92800@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:00:51 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Achim Gratz of "Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:26:11 +0200." <87vcvckm0s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Achim Gratz wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > > I'm actually hoping that nothing of the sort will be needed, but given > > that I don't have either debian squeeze or slackware available, I can't > > really see what goes wrong. > > Well, I've had a look on some server I have admin access to: what goes > wrong on Debian (Lenny+Backports) is this: > > # install-info --version > Debian install-info Version 1.14.31. > # ginstall-info --version > install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 > > The Makefile obviously expects a GNU install-info (which should probably > be documented someplace). Now, install-info lives in /usr/sbin/ and > ginstall-info in /usr/bin, also linked to /usr/bin/install-info. But if > you're installing as root (something I don't really fancy, but it's > probably too late for Linux to rectify that), /usr/sbin/ is earlier in > your path than /usr/bin. > > So, in this particular case it should be sufficient to just drop /sbin > and /usr/sbin from the PATH during make. > But from what I saw in the Ubuntu man-page, debian install-info is a wrapper around GNU install-info that does *nothing different* in the ``normal'' case. It only behaves differently when one is doing Debian maintenance thingies, whatever that means - from the man page: ,---- | install-info is a wrapper around GNU install-info. If it is called from a normal shell or | script it acts like GNU install-info by forwarding all options to ginstall-info. | | If it is called from a maintainer script it gives a warning to rebuild packages and does | nothing, since info file installation is now done via triggers. `---- What happens when you run the org make on that system with no changes at all? Does anything break? Nick