Re: minor install nit

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9901051608030.3924-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
you write:
  > On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >> (I wanted to take a stepwise approach, to first check whether compiling
  > >> install-info goes well on all platforms.)
  > > Aren't there other things in the "util" subdir?
  > 
  > I checked, and after a fresh bootstrap we only have
  > 
  >   -rw-r--r--   1 pfeifer  staff       9113 Jan  5 14:48 Makefile
  >   -rwxr-xr-x   1 pfeifer  staff      43244 Jan  5 14:49 install-info
  >   -rw-r--r--   1 pfeifer  staff      17892 Jan  5 14:49 install-info.o
  >   -rwxr-xr-x   1 pfeifer  staff      40628 Jan  5 14:49 texindex
  >   -rw-r--r--   1 pfeifer  staff      21088 Jan  5 14:49 texindex.o
  > 
  > > We may want to restrict exactly what stuff in that subdir gets built.
  > 
  > Only texindex is built in addition to install-info.  So I guess we are
  > safe building the entire "util" subdirectory (disk space, performance
  > and portability wise) and this keeps our diff to the official texinfo
  > package easier.
  > 
  > Okay to proceed with my patch?
Yea.   Please install it.

I'd make a little note that we use texindex as part of the gcc build/install
process so that folks won't be tempted to take it back out if it starts
causing problems.

Thanks!
jeff