[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55371] Add configure flag to specify makeinfo path

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #55371 (project octave):

In general, I think the best approach for shelling out to programs is to use
PATH. The next best is to fall back to an environment variable. If Octave used
the value of a MAKEINFO environment variable at run time would that help you?
And the third best approach is an application-specific configuration option,
in this case ~/.octaverc or /path/to/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc. I
really do not agree with the principle of propagating full paths to programs
found at build time from the build system to the run system.

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