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6.70.1. Installation of Texinfo
Prepare Texinfo for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
The meaning of the configure options:
--disable-static
In this case, the top-level configure script will complain that this is an unrecognized option, but the configure script for XSParagraph recognizes it and uses it to disable installing a static XSParagraph.a to /usr/lib/ texinfo.
Compile the package:
make
make
To test the results, issue:
make check
make check
Install the package:
make install
make install
Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation:
make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
The meaning of the make parameter:
TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf
The TEXMF makefile variable holds the location of the root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be installed later.
The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of menu entries. The file is located at /usr/share/ info/dir. Unfortunately, due to occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages, it can sometimes get out of sync with the info pages installed on the system. If the /usr/share/info/dir file ever needs to be recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish the task:
pushd /usr/share/info rm -v dir
for f in *
do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null done
popd
pushd /usr/share/info rm -v dir
for f in *
do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null done
popd