> From: Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 23:20:27 +0100 > Cc: Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jason Rumney wrote: > > > > It seems to me that the emergence of the GnuWin32 project has helped > > quite a bit. > > It is some time since I looked, so it might be worth trying to find a > version that works that we can recommend to those who do not want to > go through the effort of building makeinfo themselves.
I find the ports of the last two versions from GnuWin32 to be generally okay. The stand-alone Info reader is broken, since it uses termcap, and the Windows shell window doesn't support any termcap-style commands. But other than that, all the other binaries work quite well. So I think we should indeed add such a recommendation to INSTALL. But it would be nice not to need Texinfo if one is building the release tarball. I'll try to think of a way not to invoke makeinfo unless really required. Btw, there's one other related issue: why do we need to invoke install-info when we install the built binaries? THe file info/dir that comes with the distribution (and is part of CVS) already has all the entries in it, right? If we could eliminate the need for running install-info, it would be easier to avoid asking ``normal'' users to have Texinfo installed. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
