install-info problem (Debian/GNU Linux 2.0)

[Hannu Koivisto <azure at iki dot fi>]

Greetings,

When I installed 19980721 (this happens with earlier snapshots
too) to my x86/libc6 system, I got following errors:

"""
if /bin/sh -c 'install-info --version' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
    for f in cpp.info gcc.info; do \
        install-info --dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir /usr/local/info/$f; \
    done; \
else true; fi;
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir'
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
             [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
             [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--info-dir=xxx]
             [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test] [--remove] [--]
             filename
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir'
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
             [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
             [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--info-dir=xxx]
             [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test] [--remove] [--]
             filename
make[1]: [install-info] Error 1 (ignored)
chmod a-x /usr/local/info/cpp.info* /usr/local/info/gcc.info*
if [ -f libobjc.a ] ; then \
  rm -f
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.51/libobjc.a;\
"""

This is because the install-info of the Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
distribution is not compatible with the syntax that make install
is using. The egcs distribution contains sources for a
compatible install-info in texinfo/util directory. However, this
install-info is never compiled nor used in the installation
process.

AFAIK, Debian 2.0 was just officially released and thus its
current install-info is what Debian users have when they install
egcs 1.1 when it eventually is released (and what they have now
when they are compiling snapshots, like I am doing). Thus, if
this problem is not somehow fixed, it will affect those Debian
users that want to compile egcs themselves. I don't what the
situation is with other Linux distributions or other operating
systems.

install-info --version says:
"Debian GNU/Linux install-info 1.4.0.24."

//Hannu