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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Michael Bukin wrote:
> Gary Simmons <darshu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Oh just an additional note about my patch... on my system (RedHat 6.0) the
> > location of "INFO_DIR" is /etc/info-dir however I just noticed that there
> > is also a symbolic link - /usr/info/dir which points to that... So I
> > don't know which one is the standard place to put it but whichever it is,
> > that is what INFO_DIR should obviously be =) (the /usr/info/dir seems to
> > be the more likely candidate for being standard though IMHO)
>
> It should be $(infodir)/dir, but perhaps install-info should not be
> used at all, because it was not included in older versions of info and
> some systems (Debian) had different programs with such names. Maybe
> it can be added in separate make target which is not tied with
> `install' target (e.g. `install-info' target).
Quite right, $(infodir)/dir it should be... Hrmmm what about some sort of
autoconf macro that locates the program and its location? I don't have a
clue to right one of those though.
> Also gzip should not be used automatically, and I don't think it is
> necessary as separate target.
Why not, who doesn't have gzip? The info file is pretty big and I don't
know of any info that doesn't automatically ungzip the files.
--Gary Simmons