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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2011-10-23 13:19:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2011-10-23 19:13:55 +0200 |
| commit | 1ec1668645acc84c2f2ae78d5a3da6f9e50ca429 (patch) | |
| tree | b84fd035ba80736e23c413a4ec89cba041b151b2 /THANKS | |
| parent | 9b5ced02fd41130d408d95808855a067eb82dd68 (diff) | |
| download | automake-1ec1668645acc84c2f2ae78d5a3da6f9e50ca429.tar.gz | |
info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the
environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
`install-info' program was the Debian or GNU version -- hack
which had been silently broken with recent versions of debian
install-info BTW (probably since dpkg 1.15.4, 2009-09-06).
This change fixes automake bug#9773. See also Debian Bug#543992.
* lib/am/texinfos.am: Don't look anymore at the output of
`install-info --version' to decide whether to use it to update
the `${infodir}/dir' or not; instead, honour the environment
variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'.
* tests/install-info-dir.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* tests/defs: Also unset `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR', to avoid unwanted
interferences from the environment.
* doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Update.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* THANKS: Likewise.
Report by Jonathan Nieder.
Diffstat (limited to 'THANKS')
| -rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ John Pierce hawkfan@pyrotechnics.com John Ratliff autoconf@technoplaza.net John R. Cary cary@txcorp.com John W. Coomes jcoomes@eng.Sun.COM +Jonathan Nieder jrnieder@gmail.com Josh MacDonald jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu Joshua Cowan jcowan@jcowan.reslife.okstate.edu js pendry js.pendry@msdw.com |