Re: [help-texinfo] Unable to find makeinfo

[tomas]

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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Andrew DePalma wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Actually I got the distro version wrong. It's 8.10
> not 8.04. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

[keeping the list cc'ed for the benefit of other readers -- and archive
searchers]

It might (checks) -- no, actually according to [1] they have the very
same version (even the same OS-specific variant), namely 4.11.dfsg-.1-4.
They unsurprisingly show the same file list [2].

[...]

> end up doing is just copying the makeinfo executable from another
> distro into my /usr/bin directory instead. Not sure if it will work or
> not.

Hm. That might work, but re-installing the texinfo package might
be both easier and less risky. Just a "sudo apt-get install --reinstall
texinfo" from a command line will do the trick). If it doesn't, we'd be
fairly sure that Ubuntu (at least the repository you are using) has a
bug.

> Actually the only place LFS uses makeinfo is in an optional step
> so I may just not use it at all.

Right. You'd just miss the docs.

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[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/i386
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/i386/texinfo

Regards
- -- tomás
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