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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: simon@josefsson.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org,
	bug-standards@gnu.org
Subject: Re: egrep, fgrep, and install-info
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 20:12:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ktKbV-0005sq-Vh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3937058.cZqfhRazpa@omega> (message from Bruno Haible on Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:43:57 +0100)

   2) For 'install-info', what would be the replacement? Even though
   Automake knows how to handle its absence [1], it would be good to
   know.

On systems where install-info is lacking, we simply don't install a
node entry in the dir file and continue with the post-install.  This
is a slightly different behaviour than what we have for other programs
which we generally consider a hard error.  E.g., if you don't have
grep -E, and no egrep or some other such ... you're shit outta luck.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-27  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-26 16:24 cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 17:32 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 18:34   ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 18:49     ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 19:12       ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-26 21:55         ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 23:12           ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27  0:07             ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27  0:23               ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27  1:05                 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27  0:07             ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27  0:43             ` egrep, fgrep, and install-info Bruno Haible
2020-12-27  1:12               ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2020-12-26 19:31       ` cmp/diff Paul Smith

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