Thank you for explaining ||:

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Michael Olson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mirko Vukovic <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Alex Ott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Mirko Vukovic  at "Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:38:12 -0400" wrote:
>>>  MV> Hello,
>>>
>>>  MV> This is on windows & emacs built for windows.  The installation
>>>  MV> environment cygwin 1.7.
>>>
>>>  MV> When installing the info for muse 3.20 & planner 3.42, I had to add
>>>  MV> the `.info' suffix in the command for info dir installation as below:
>>>
>>>  MV> install_info = install-info --info-dir=$(INFODIR) $(1).info || :
>>>
>>> This isn't typo - on Unixes, makeinfo produces file without extension.
>>> I'll try to unify this for all platforms
>>>
>>
>> Here is the version number of my version of install-info:
>>
>>> install-info --version
>> install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> BTW, what does the  `|| :' syntax mean?
>
> It means ignore the return value of install-info and never stop 'make'
> because of it.
>
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