On 3 August 2015 at 14:22, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose you configure with "./configure --program-suffix=-5.2" and > there is an installable Info file "texinfo.info": ideally, the file > would be installed as "texinfo-5.2.info", and be accessible with "info > texinfo-5.2". Moreover, there should be some transformation of the dir > entry from this: > > * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files. > > to this: > > * texindex-5.2: (texinfo-5.2)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo > index files. > > which would be achieved with an extra option to install-info. (Then > "info texindex-5.2" would work.) > > Perhaps install-info could also add a symlink from texinfo.info to > texinfo-5.2.info if no file texinfo.info exists already.
Even if that happened, installing multiple versions of Texinfo under the same prefix hierarchy breaks. I discovered this after I did "./configure --program-suffix=-6.0" and installed Texinfo 6.0, but when I ran "makeinfo" referring to an installed development version, it broke because it was using the installed Perl modules from 6.0 instead of the development-version Perl modules. The way to fix this would be to install the Perl modules under a versioned directory, for example "/usr/local/share/texinfo/6.0". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
