noinst_TEXINFOS does not build Info files

[Ben Pfaff]

With this Makefile.am:

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AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
noinst_TEXINFOS = foo.texinfo
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and this configure.ac:

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AC_INIT(amtest, 1.0, address@hidden)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
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and this foo.texinfo:

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@setfilename foo.info
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the generated Makefile.in will not build foo.info, either with
"make" or "make foo.info".  However, if I change
"noinst_TEXINFOS" to "info_TEXINFOS", foo.info is built as
expected.

Is noinst_TEXINFOS unsupported?  The manual says nothing about it
as far as I can tell.  I see a 5-year-old patch that would have
added support for noinst_TEXINFOS:
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/191
It appears to have never been applied.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org