Re: [BUG] Failed to make install-info

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2007, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejdpvmlw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712140635.39311.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

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> Le jeudi 13 décembre 2007, Jon Loeliger a écrit :
>> Guys,
>> I managed to fail to install info files during:
>>
>>     /usr/src/git# make prefix=/usr install-info
>
> I am also struggling with "make install-info" to make it install in 
> ~/share/info/dir 
>
> First it barfed because "~/share/info/dir" did not exist.
>
> Then it doesn't find "install-info" because it's in "/usr/sbin" on my debian 
> machine.
>
> I well tell if I get the same error as you. But right now I cannot 
> invastigate more.

I personally feel that calling "install-info" is a bit too distro-ish and should not be done in our Makefile vanilla build-and-install procedure.