compile and install bugs on irix
Gerald Pfeifer
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Jun 23 09:04:00 GMT 1999
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> You should talk to Gerald since he explicitly re-enabled install-info
> presumbly so that it could be used somewhere in our tree.
(Jeff, I'm always suprised about your memory, or did you consult the
ChangeLogs? ;-) )
Here is some background: We encountered various problems with already
installed (older versions) of install-info, so I planned to build and use
the version of install-info that was already part of our texinfo/ subtree.
The first step was enabling the build of install-info. However, before
I completely tested and submitted the second part, i.e., actually using
our own install-info...
> As you know, the plan is to totally zap the whole texinfo tree after
> gcc-2.95. Until then I want to make the absolute minimal changes
> necessary to this stuff.
...Jeff came to the conclusion that we will remove the texinfo subtree
again, so I removed my (local) changes and stopped persuing this project.
To avoid any possible side effects, I did not submit a patch to back out
my previous changes, but as a matter of fact I don't think removing
1999-01-21 Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Include util again in order to generate
install-info.
* Makefile.in: Rebuild.
for the release should cause any problems, and we probably should do that
if that fixes the Irix issue.
Gerald
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