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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Failed to make install-info
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:45:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vprx9rwz1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J3Bg0-0004Ut-Ii@jdl.com> (Jon Loeliger's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:38:08 -0600")

Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> writes:

> So, like, the other day Junio C Hamano mumbled:
>> 
>> I personally feel that calling "install-info" is a bit too distro-ish
>> and should not be done in our Makefile vanilla build-and-install
>> procedure.
>
> Hmmm...  That's an interesting take on things
> given the top of the INSTALL file:
>
> 		    Git installation
>
>     Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
>     will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory.  If you want
>     to do a global install, you can do
>
> 	    $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
> 	    # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root

I was not talking about install-info target that copies generated *.info
files to $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)/.  That does not sound distro-ish at all
to me.

What I found questionable was $(INSTALL_INFO) invocation in that target
in the Makefile.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 15:38 [BUG] Failed to make install-info Jon Loeliger
2007-12-14  5:35 ` Christian Couder
2007-12-14  6:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 14:38     ` Jon Loeliger
2007-12-14 17:45       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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