Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-17 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Doug Barton wrote: > > Ok, sounds like you guys have it under control. If the fix was this > "easy," I really wish that someone had pushed for its inclusion in > 4.0-Release. This is going to be a big problem for people, and there are > enough hurdles into 4.0 already. :-/ There was some

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-17 Thread Doug Barton
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:08:55PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the > > > solution is really as easy as it seems: > > > > H

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > This is a bug. If install-info is installed, then it isn't a build tool. > > Build tools are programs/scripts that are needed to build the sources > > only. They are not installed. Since install-info is installed, it can't > > be a build tool. this means that we either

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:57:22AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the > > > > solution is really as easy as it seems: > > > > > > Hmmm I had been thinking all along that the problem w

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the > > > solution is really as easy as it seems: > > > > Hmmm I had been thinking all along that the problem with > > install-info was that the system couldn't use the new binary. Are you

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:08:55PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the > > solution is really as easy as it seems: > > Hmmm I had been thinking all along th

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-15 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the > solution is really as easy as it seems: Hmmm I had been thinking all along that the problem with install-info was that the system couldn't use the new b

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-15 Thread Jim Bloom
Don't forget to test the case of cross platform installs. You can build on one platform and install on another with the mounts having the target mounted on the build machine or the source and object mounted on the target machine after the build was done on a different architecture. I believe thi