Lars J. Aas writes:
> I installed libtool 1.4 in the wrong place and then tried "make uninstall"
> before doing a reconfigure. It complained about not finding "install-info"
> or something - I didn't care to investigate further.
I pointed this out a long time ago. "make uninstall" has the potential to
be broken in all Automake using packages -- at least those using texinfo.
(Try out Autoconf and Automake itself.)
The reason is that install-info is often installed under /sbin, so it's
not in the ordinary user's path. The "install" targets work around this
by not calling "install-info" in that case, but "uninstall" does not.
Tom Tromey said to me something along the lines that uninstall is of too
little use to bother.
A correct fix, in my mind, would be to add Autoconf checks for
install-info, possibly combined with "missing" support. At the same time,
vendors should be flamed not to install install-info into sbin. Ordinary
users can make perfectly good use of it.
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