[PATCH][BZ #15941] Fix generation of INSTALL file with makeinfo 5.x
Ondřej Bílka
neleai@seznam.cz
Wed Dec 4 14:38:00 GMT 2013
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:38:14PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Allan had noted that newer makeinfo versions fail silently when
> generating the INSTALL file due to the fact that they silently treat
> non-existent links as failures. The patch below fixes this by adding
> an additional install-plain.texi that simply sets a variable to
> conditionally include the @node directive in the real install.texi.
> makeinfo 5.2 has a @ifnotplaintext directive that could be useful
> here, but it would mean having to bump makeinfo requirement, which
> seemed unnecessary to me.
>
Looks ok,
Could it be possible to add test that install was regenerated? I could
imagine this bug return in future when somebody adds wrong link.
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