Re: make install fails

[Jesper Harder]

"dhruv kumar" <dhruv_kmr@hotmail.com> writes:

>   It failed while looking for executable "install-info"
> Make file assigns "INSTALL_INFO" to "install-info", but there is no
> executable/script named so.
>   Is this executable/script created on the fly, If so where ?
>   Or it is there in tar ball (atleast i couldn't find it in tar -ball).

`install-info' is an executable which is part of Texinfo.  It isn't
included with Emacs.  This is what it does:

,----
|   `install-info' inserts menu entries from an Info file into the
| top-level `dir' file in the Info system (see the previous sections for
| an explanation of how the `dir' file works).  It's most often run as
| part of software installation, or when constructing a `dir' file for
| all manuals on a system.
`----