minor install nit

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Sun Jul 26 00:10:00 GMT 1998


  In message < Pine.GSO.3.96.980702152040.26112F-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
  > On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  >   markab[157]:~% install-info --version
  >   GNU install-info (Texinfo 3.9) 1.2
  > 
  > In the meantime, Dave Love has made the corresponding commands
  > ``fail-safe'', as I just noticed, so now you only get
An interesting thing to look at might be to use the version of
install-info that should be built from the texinfo code included
in egcs.

  > In any case, my patch below is a cleaner solution in that it prevents
  > the errors instead of simply ignoring them.
  > 
  > Gerald
  > 
  > 
  > Fri Jul 24 18:59:56 1998  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
  > 
  > 	* Makefile.in (install-info): Only try to update the info
  > 	directory file if it exists in the first place.
Agreed and installed on in the mainline sources and the egcs-1.1 branch.

Thanks!
jeff



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