Re: Bug#139569: patch: info patch doesn't lead to the info docs (fwd)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > I believe Debian has their own version of install-info (IIRC, it's a
> > script, not a C program), that is very different from the version
> > distributed with Texinfo; even its command-line switches are
> > incompatible.  (That's why the latest versions of Automake produce
> > Makefile.in that gives a special treatment to Debian install-info.)
> 
> The GNU Diffutils 2.8 distribution uses Automake 1.6, released March
> 6.  CVS Automake doesn't seem to have any patches relevant to this
> problem since then.  So I don't think this problem can be fixed by
> upgrading to the latest version of Automake.

I didn't mean to say that Automake can solve the specific bug in 
question, just that Makefile.in is an evidence to the fact that there are 
incompatibilities between Debian install-info and the one from GNU 
Texinfo (grep doc/Makefile.in for "debian").