Re: [Integrit-users] error installing 2.03

[Ed L C. <ec...@te...>]

<lie...@pa...> writes:

> There seems to be a file missing: install-info. Here is the error I get
> when typing "make install"
> 
> >>> installing documentation: cd doc && make install
> installing manpage i-ls.1 in /opt/integrit-2.03/man/man1
> installing manpage i-viewdb.1 in /opt/integrit-2.03/man/man1
> installing manpage integrit.1 in /opt/integrit-2.03/man/man1
> installing integrit in /opt/integrit-2.03/info
> install-info --dir-file=/opt/integrit-2.03/info/dir
> --info-file=/opt/integrit-2.03/info/integrit
> sh: install-info: not found
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> Current working directory /tmp/integrit-2.03/doc
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> 
> Maybe a hint to get around this?

[on lunch]
Yeah, I was afraid of that.  I want integrit to be GNU-compliant, so a
couple versions ago I switched the docs over to texinfo.  Texinfo's
great once you stop reading the texinfo manual and look at someone
else's texinfo sources.  ;)

Now we've got nicer docs, e.g., there's HTML and PostScript version of
the documentation that's generated directly from the texinfo:

  http://integrit.sourceforge.net//texinfo/integrit.html
  http://integrit.sourceforge.net//texinfo/integrit.ps

... but the installation of the documenation now depends on the user
having install-info, which is a binary program that's part of the GNU
info distribution.  For example, here's a RedHat machine I use:

  ecashin@ping build$ rpm -qf /sbin/install-info 
  info-4.0-15

It's in sbin, so it should be in root's path if you do a "su - ", *if*
you've got info installed.  If not, get info, install it, make sure
install-info is in root's path, and then everything should work.

To be thorough, I should add configure support for install-info so
that the configure script and the Makefile will say something helpful
if they can't find install-info.  

Thanks very much for the feedback.  If I can't fix this correctly yet,
I should at least warn the user and continue the build upon the
failure of the install-info step.

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