From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jude DaShiell Subject: Re: patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <8739ii885d.fsf@gnu.org> <21342.1310116208@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87k4bsfmuv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <4397.1310165406@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87vcvckm0s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <28121.1310227245@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfeOi-0008K7-C4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:45:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfeOg-0006nB-6d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:45:08 -0400 Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:57299 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfeOf-0006lj-Rm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:45:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <28121.1310227245@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> 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: Nick Dokos Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org If a make is done on debian squeeze with default org-mode install-info which is debian's version of install-info complains that it's not gnu info and tells you to use ginstall-info when a make install-info-debian or make install-info is tried and neither one of those switches for make upgrades the info documentation. My hardware speech synthesizer is in the freezer because it's on its last legs but I may be able to take it out and run electricity through it one last time and check things out in Slackware. The espeakup debian version I use sends speech out my sound card but slackware for now requires a hardware speech synthesizer. On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Nick Dokos wrote: > 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 > > > > >