> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:20:18 GMT > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > requires a non-standard 'mktemp' command > > The install-info tests using mktemp have been part of Texinfo since > before 4.13, at least. I'm surprised you did not have a problem with it > before.
Maybe I did, but didn't complain for some reason (e.g., because 4.13 was then quite old and a new shining version was long in the works about which I had no idea). The problem is still real. > I see from (autoconf)Limitations of Usual Tools that it's feasible > enough to emulate it. But every other system I have ever seen in the > last X years has it (and no one else has ever reported not having it). > Sigh. Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. 'mktemp' is part of GNU Coreutils in latest versions. > If the package is not relocatable, > > Very few GNU packages are relocatable, in my experience. But makeinfo was, until now, because it didn't need to read any files for its job.
