Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; Location of installed .info files

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2007-01-13) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I suspect the culprit lies in different autoconf versions being used.
>> `configure' generated with autoconf 2.61 (as installed on my system)
>> contains this:
>>
>> # ./configure --help | grep 'datarootdir\|infodir'
>>   --datarootdir=DIR      read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
>>   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
>>
>> The output on Reiner's build server likely looks different.
>
> How does Reiner's build server play into this?

Uwe mentioned that the snapshots are working, in contrast to the
release.  And the snapshots are built on Reiner's build server which
likely features a different autoconf version.

> And why would the CVS
> Emacs compile to a different info location as AUCTeX?

On a GNU/Linux system the info files were installed into
/usr/local/info with the old autoconf and now they are installed into
/usr/local/share/info.  That's where the rest of the info files from
Emacs are located as well.

The situation on Windows is different because all Emacs-related files
are saved under a single directory, i.e. there is no distinction
between something like /usr/local and /usr/local/share, solely $PREFIX
is used.

> Does it not use
> a similar version of autoconf?

Emacs?  No idea.

> Is this a bug in autoconf?

If the location for info files on GNU/Linux systems is correct, I
don't think so.  FHS 2.3 specifies that info files should be put below
/usr/share/info, so /usr/local/share looks correct to me.

-- 
Ralf