George Madrid wrote:
> 
> Are these errors normal while installing emacs-20.7-5?
> 
> install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/sw/src/root-
> emacs-20.7-5/sw/share/info/dir'
> usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
>               [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
>               [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--info-dir=xxx]
>               [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
>               [--remove | --remove-exactly ]
>               [--]
>               filename

Although I haven't installed emacs-20.7-5, I would say they are normal.
I get them for other packages like readline, too. 

The reason is that the Makefile uses GNU-install-info syntax, whereas
Fink uses debian install-info. This is not important, however, because
the whole install-info is superfluous during package *building*. All
install-info does is updating the database of the info doc system,
namely the "dir" file in the info doc directory, and the one built
during package building is thrown away anyway. The real install-info run
happens afterwards when dpkg installs the *.deb file, and there dpkg
uses its own debian syntax, namely --info-dir instead of --dir-file.

So these non-fatal "errors" are more a sign of maintainer lazyness than
of real problems. They could be made disappear by adding some lines to
the patch file.

-- 
Martin

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