> From: [email protected] (Vincent Belaïche) > Cc: Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]> , Karl > Berry <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:25:05 +0200 > > After your email I tried to build the latest install-info on MSWindows > --- my install-info version is 4.11 from MSYS and it *DOES NOT* process > CRLF well which means that it fails to find the DIRENTRY.
Yes, MSYS programs always use binary I/O mode, because they simulate a Posix environment. They are therefore inappropriate for installing Info manuals on Windows, only for building those manuals. You need to use a native Windows build of install-info. > However I could not achieve to do that because the Makefile and > configure are not archieved in the CVS repo, and there does not seem to > be any windows specific hand made configure + make like for EMACS. I > tried to re-generate the Makefile+configure but that failed also: I got > the following error > > /local/bin/autoreconf > Can't spawn "aclocal": No such file or directory at > /usr/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. > autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory This probably means you have an old version of autoconf. Do you really want to build Texinfo yourself, or do you just need a program that someone else built? If the latter, you can find precompiled binaries here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-5.1-2-w32-bin.zip/download There's a corresponding source zip there, which is already configured. So perhaps you will be able to build it by typing "make" into the MSYS shell window.
