From unknown Thu Jun 19 14:04:17 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#23122 <23122@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#23122 <23122@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files Reply-To: bug#23122 <23122@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:04:17 +0000 retitle 23122 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install delete= d info files reassign 23122 emacs submitter 23122 flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio) severity 23122 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Mar 26 12:34:18 2016 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Mar 2016 16:34:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38875 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrAI-0001sv-H1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:18 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35497) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrAG-0001sg-M2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrAA-0006gl-8d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:11 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:47478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrAA-0006gg-67 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:10 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrA8-0007pZ-C5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrA6-0006gM-62 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:08 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::230]:36528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajrA5-0006gI-WC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:34:06 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id i4so22201238qkc.3 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:34:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=0Sgg9ajGg6U+t1PE2sDR97sQQPgSFF78oMONaD7u5VY=; b=fQunD/5eP9l5xgR5HHDiUmgqXvrYzsId6rviVcx08h/iCMt857udIum8ua5fif+NaL PPLnCT/KKXN7fpPdOjpVv495TiorBgyF7eabGgzuF3J+LZWG1nCJsav6PecH4O8c7Jc5 l5hJj2IVfbZfKDxCL97uSc0T5oOhkwMWnrtPQJLA2k7jUoS0Kl8K1EUvcmjStp1fvbVM qw6zc7Ae49dc33CYOqeqbWNk4JbcaTkdNDQZg/3nskmB19GoFueva9q2zm5u1x4x7nhm hXFPUd4hxJjtGIfvdITCfz9qyu7Z9Q2jVkftbDcHulxMnGIpX7RByvah0PQZ5wZ1NcaO zRPw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=0Sgg9ajGg6U+t1PE2sDR97sQQPgSFF78oMONaD7u5VY=; b=iXP3sEnLYmW/sE9fI+3e+49+m+4sXIoI13wTpFsdhzsPXBm3QmN+xbo3aMfnPPYTVC 9OpOzk96FYCZqIIuD197tFkhGo67YBsghIi+cQEkKU6p4JxIgN3AjS9XErJCrTTaOYg4 NWcd0eDaIbmdNvVxTTMfJdh5VgOWVO2GnmS9l/weagMev9+emSD+kzGNduGzodA8sXb6 u1wNcnFwF9rrbVguQJImkPktqk1aoEfN5LW/ZOCIJG7l2abhE/16aWppA8Az35lv80/s D45p3TORQY+IlutfA/GwtyEncvefhfhH3iglhcTL1TfZu+PxXU+y5cu8XpBdpIuZBf07 7lcA== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJJp+N2fU7wO08VCWRw4cxaYgCLECrrwYlQs0pMT6/gdRr0qpDi4jv4Cuf7071PSdA== X-Received: by 10.37.17.136 with SMTP id 130mr10283998ybr.173.1459010045118; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puppy.gmail.com ([2600:1000:b034:2406:e146:3c27:5822:e1d0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 204sm11000943ywz.39.2016.03.26.09.34.03 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:17:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87fuvd5hcc.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) The Makefile generated by configuring the latest master branch source code contains target "install-info" which refers to deleted info files, causing error messages from /usr/bin/install-info. Here's the relevant section of the Makefile (with parts elided for brevity): install-info: info ... if [ "`cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd`" = "$$exp_infodir" ]; then \ true; \ else \ ... for elt in ${INFO_NONMISC} $${info_misc}; do \ ... for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \ (cd "$${thisdir}"; \ ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"); \ ... ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"; \ done; \ (cd "$${thisdir}"; \ ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt"); \ done; \ fi This command near the end: ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt") refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been deleted by this preceding gzip command: ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f" because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed. Both of these commands are in a for loop that processes every info file. This leads to a block of errors in the output of "make install-info" of this form, with one error for each info file being installed: install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/emacs.info install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/eintr.info install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/elisp.info install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/ada-mode.info ... Oddly, file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/dir seems to contain references to all of the installed info files, but that may be because file "dir" was created that way during my build, because my build output contains this line: GEN info/dir -- Fran Litterio flitterio -at- gmail.com In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2016-03-25 built on PUPPY Repository revision: 368b9bb45f125061506d43af4bd4791ab2cfd7b9 Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif' Configured features: SOUND NOTIFY ACL TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS Important settings: value of $LANG: C.ISO-8859-1 locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: erc-list-mode: t erc-menu-mode: t erc-ring-mode: t erc-networks-mode: t erc-pcomplete-mode: t erc-track-mode: t erc-match-mode: t erc-button-mode: t erc-fill-mode: t erc-netsplit-mode: t erc-irccontrols-mode: t erc-noncommands-mode: t erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t erc-readonly-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t show-paren-mode: t save-place-mode: t icomplete-mode: t savehist-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent messages: Type "q" to delete help window. Mark set [11 times] Type C-x 1 to remove help window. Type "q" to restore previous buffer. [2 times] Type "q" to delete help window, to scroll help. a is undefined View mode: type M-h for help, h for commands, q to quit. Quit [4 times] Mark set Type C-x 1 to remove help window. Load-path shadows: None found. 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26 Mar 2016 17:55:08 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38905 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajsQV-00041b-Nj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:55:07 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47299) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajsQU-000411-5w for 23122@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:55:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajsQL-00070F-Vv for 23122@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:55:01 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajsQL-00070B-SX; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:54:57 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2177 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ajsQL-00019C-2m; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:54:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:54:32 +0300 Message-Id: <83twjtyvjb.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio) In-reply-to: <87fuvd5hcc.fsf@gmail.com> (flitterio@gmail.com) Subject: Re: bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files References: <87fuvd5hcc.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 23122 Cc: 23122@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) > From: flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio) > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:17:07 -0400 > > install-info: info > ... > if [ "`cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd`" = "$$exp_infodir" ]; then \ > true; \ > else \ > ... > for elt in ${INFO_NONMISC} $${info_misc}; do \ > ... > for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \ > (cd "$${thisdir}"; \ > ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"); \ > ... > ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f"; \ > done; \ > (cd "$${thisdir}"; \ > ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt"); \ > done; \ > fi > > This command near the end: > > ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt") > > refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been > deleted by this preceding gzip command: > > ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f" > > because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed. > Both of these commands are in a for loop that processes every info file. > This leads to a block of errors in the output of "make install-info" of > this form, with one error for each info file being installed: > > install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/emacs.info > install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/eintr.info > install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/elisp.info > install-info: No such file or directory for /apps/emacs/share/info/ada-mode.info > ... The above works for me here. Could it be that your version of the install-info program doesn't support compressed Info files? What version of Texinfo do you have installed? > 'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm > --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif' The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix. This could be related to your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Mar 26 16:09:54 2016 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Mar 2016 20:09:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38925 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWw-0007ag-Fj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:54 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35852) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWu-0007aT-EO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWo-0007OC-BJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:47 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:33839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWo-0007O8-8M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:46 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWn-0006he-E1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWk-0007Nh-8u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:45 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWk-0007NE-1u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:09:42 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ajuWe-0007hP-Ff for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 21:09:36 +0100 Received: from 252.sub-70-192-38.myvzw.com ([70.192.38.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 21:09:36 +0100 Received: from flitterio by 252.sub-70-192-38.myvzw.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 21:09:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org From: Fran Litterio Subject: Re: bug#23122: =?utf-8?b?MjUuMS41MDsJTWFrZWZpbGU=?= target install-info tries to install deleted info files Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <87fuvd5hcc.fsf@gmail.com> <83twjtyvjb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 70.192.38.252 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -3.9 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.9 (---) Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> writes: > > From: flitterio gmail.com (Francis Litterio) ... > > This command near the end: > > > > ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir="$(DESTDIR)${infodir}" "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt") > > > > refers to info file $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt, but that file has been > > deleted by this preceding gzip command: > > > > ${GZIP_PROG} -9n "$(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f" > > > > because the -n switch tells gzip to delete the file being compressed. ... > The above works for me here. > > Could it be that your version of the install-info program doesn't > support compressed Info files? What version of Texinfo do you have > installed? The output of "install-info --version" is: install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 > > 'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm > > --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif' > > The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of > c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix. This could be related to > your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says. That was the cause. Changing my configure command to use "--prefix /c/apps/emacs" fixes the problem on my Windows machine. It appears that version 4.13 of MinGW/MSYS install-info is confused by the drive letter in the pathname. I'll pursue this with the MinGW folks. Thanks, Eli. -- Fran flitterio gmail.com From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Mar 26 22:32:24 2016 Received: (at 23122-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Mar 2016 02:32:24 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39082 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ak0V5-0000MI-Qg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:23 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53411) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ak0V4-0000M4-Df for 23122-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak0Uu-0000WB-FZ for 23122-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:17 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak0Uu-0000W7-Bw; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:12 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2948 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ak0Ut-0002BQ-Pg; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:32:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 05:31:49 +0300 Message-Id: <83pougzm5m.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Fran Litterio In-reply-to: (message from Fran Litterio on Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:09:28 +0000 (UTC)) Subject: Re: bug#23122: 25.1.50; Makefile target install-info tries to install deleted info files References: <87fuvd5hcc.fsf@gmail.com> <83twjtyvjb.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 23122-done Cc: 23122-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) > From: Fran Litterio > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:09:28 +0000 (UTC) > > The output of "install-info --version" is: > > install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 > > > > 'configure --prefix=c:/apps/emacs --without-x --without-xpm > > > --without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif' > > > > The file nt/INSTALL recommends to use /c/apps/emacs instead of > > c:/apps/emacs as the argument to --prefix. This could be related to > > your problem, but even if not, my advice is to do as nt/INSTALL says. > > That was the cause. Changing my configure command to use > "--prefix /c/apps/emacs" fixes the problem on my Windows machine. > It appears that version 4.13 of MinGW/MSYS install-info is confused > by the drive letter in the pathname. I'll pursue this with the MinGW > folks. > > Thanks, Eli. Thanks, I'm therefore closing the bug. From unknown Thu Jun 19 14:04:17 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:24:03 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator