Re: install failure: install-info: no info dir entry...

[Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:

 Jeff>   In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980624115749.16958G-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
 >> you write:
 >> install-info: No such file or directory for /sw/swtest/egcs/BSD/info/dir
 >> install-info: No such file or directory for /sw/swtest/egcs/BSD/info/dir
 >> install-info: No such file or directory for /sw/swtest/egcs/BSD/info/dir
 >> install-info: No such file or directory for /sw/swtest/egcs/BSD/info/dir
 >> install-info: No such file or directory for /sw/swtest/egcs/BSD/info/dir
 Jeff> Yup.  I get this too during a "make install".

 Jeff> David  -- any thoughts?

I can't make that happen from either the gcc/cpp or g77 info installs
by removing the existing dir file; it's created without complaint.  Is
it looking for non-existent dir file in the right place above?  I have
 install-info (GNU texinfo) 3.12
on i586-pc-linux-gnu.  I haven't built the egcs texinfo stuff, which I
thought was the same thing.  Do I have to?

However, I now see complaints like this for some reason, which I
didn't before:
 install-info: menu item `Cpp' already exists, for file `cpp'

The previous version was intentional for safety and, I thought,
innocuous...

Thu Jun 25 11:24:55 1998  Dave Love  <d.love@dl.ac.uk>

	* Makefile.in (install-info): Run install-info program in separate
	loop.

Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/gcc/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.136
diff -u -p -r1.136 Makefile.in
--- Makefile.in 1998/06/22 18:32:14     1.136
+++ Makefile.in 1998/06/25 10:26:26
@@ -2376,10 +2376,13 @@ install-info: doc installdirs lang.insta
        for f in cpp.info* gcc.info*; do \
            realfile=`echo $$f | sed -e 's|.*/\([^/]*\)$$|\1|'`; \
            $(INSTALL_DATA) $$f $(infodir)/$$realfile; \
-           if $(SHELL) -c 'install-info --version' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
-              install-info --dir-file=$(infodir)/dir $(infodir)/$$realfile; \
-           else true; fi; \
        done
+       if $(SHELL) -c 'install-info --version' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+           for f in cpp.info gcc.info; do \
+               realfile=`echo $$f | sed -e 's|.*/\([^/]*\)$$|\1|'`; \
+               install-info --dir-file=$(infodir)/dir $(infodir)/$$realfile; \
+           done; \
+       else true; fi;
        -chmod a-x $(infodir)/cpp.info* $(infodir)/gcc.info*

 # Install the man pages.