Re: gzip makeinfo

[Dennis Leeuw]

"Guevara, Kristine F" wrote:

> I am trying to build gzip-1.2.4a.  It is returning the following error on
> the make install:
>
> if test ! -d /GNUtools/2.6/man; then \
>    mkdir /GNUtools/2.6/man; fi
> for dir in /GNUtools/2.6/bin /GNUtools/2.6/bin /GNUtools/2.6/lib
> /GNUtools/2.6/l
> ib /GNUtools/2.6/info /GNUtools/2.6/man/man1 ; do \
>    if test ! -d ${dir}; then \
>      mkdir ${dir}; fi; \
> done
> cp gzip /GNUtools/2.6/bin/gzip
> for f in zdiff zgrep zmore znew zforce gzexe; do \
>   cp ${f} /GNUtools/2.6/bin/${f}; done
> rm -f /GNUtools/2.6/bin/zcmp; \
>   ln /GNUtools/2.6/bin/zdiff /GNUtools/2.6/bin/zcmp
> for f in gunzip ungzip zcat ; do \
>   rm -f /GNUtools/2.6/bin/${f}; done
> cd .; makeinfo gzip.texi
> /bin/sh: makeinfo: not found
> make: *** [gzip.info] Error 1
>
> The gzip.info already existed in the downloaded package so it did not give
> an error when I first did the make install.  However, I was wondering if
> gzip.info should be re-produced from makeinfo or if the gzip.info that
> currently exists is sufficient.

Are you using the gnu info system for reading documentation?
If not, then skip it alltogether, else the supplied one will be sufficient. I
would not see any reason to also install makeinfo...

Dennis


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