Re: Emacs pretest 24.3.91

[Glenn Morris]

Steve Revilak wrote:

> There was one minor surprise in the Debian 7.4 installation.  During
> "make install", I received several screenfulls of
>
>   See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
>   This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info


It is a harmless irritation. It's just what Debian's "install-info"
program prints, every time it is called. AFAIK it's been doing it for
years, you'd think it could stop now...

https://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo

Anyway, I installed this to shut it up:

--- a/configure.ac      2014-05-12 06:11:08 +0000
+++ b/configure.ac      2014-05-17 01:38:33 +0000
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@
   LN_S="/bin/ln"
 fi
 
-AC_PATH_PROG(INSTALL_INFO, install-info, :,
+AC_PATH_PROGS(INSTALL_INFO, [ginstall-info install-info], :,
   $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/sbin$PATH_SEPARATOR/sbin)
 dnl Don't use GZIP, which is used by gzip for additional parameters.
 AC_PATH_PROG(GZIP_PROG, gzip)