Re: [BUG] Failed to make install-info

From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2007, 14:38 UTC
Message-ID: <E1J3Bg0-0004Ut-Ii@jdl.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejdpvmlw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

So, like, the other day Junio C Hamano mumbled:

> 
> 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.

Hmmm... That's an interesting take on things given the top of the INSTALL file:

		    Git installation

    Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
    will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory.  If you want
    to do a global install, you can do

	    $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
	    # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root

Granted, it's the first time I've actually tried to install the docs on this (debian) machine too. I've normally just read them straight out of the doc directory. :-)

But I will have to agree with you on the problems surrounding the One Install to Rule Them All (and in the darkness bind9 them).

jdl