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To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/libgmp gmp.texi 
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:04:58 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Josh MacDonald wrote:
[..]
> > There is a switch to install-info, ``--entry'' at first glance looked like 
> > it should be able to solve the problem, but instead it causes an 
> > additional "dir" entry instead of replacing the embedded string.  We need 
> > some way of supplying an alternative "dir" entry.

> Describe precisely the changes you want to install-info and I'll make them.
> I already understand it (and modified it to add the --defentry and 
> --defsection flags).

We need install-info to be able to deal with this:
* gmp: (gmp.info).              GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.
        ^^^^^^^^^
If we change gmp.texi to drop the .info off the end, it works.  Otherwise 
this happens:
===> doc
install-info --defsection="Programming & development tools."  --defentry=  \
  gmp.info /usr/share/info/dir
install-info: menu item `gmp' already exists, for file `gmp.info'
*** Error code 1

Also, the install-info --delete option doesn't work if the .info is 
present, but works fine if it's removed.

Alternatively we need to be able to specify a replacement for the entry
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* gmp: (gmp.info).                GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
eg:
install-info --defsection="Programming & development tools."  --defentry= \
  --forceentry="* gmp: (gmp).    GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library." \
  gmp.info /usr/share/info/dir

This is also needed so that the change to src/contrib/gcc/cp/reno.texi can 
be backed out.

Changing the .texi files to work around bugs or deficiencies in the install
utility is highly undesirable as it leads to a large repository impact when
it comes time to upgrade the src/contrib packages. (CVS is extremely
inefficient here due to the RCS file format)  

> -josh

Cheers,
-Peter