----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner LEMBERG" <w...@gnu.org>
To: <em...@philholmes.net>
Cc: <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Updating makeinfo
I've not used my Ubuntu 14 lilypond computer for a while, and I'm
now trying to help update the example images on the website. If I
run configure I'm being told my makeinfo is too old - I've got 5.2
and it requires 6.1. I can't run the GUI updater because it just
tells me there's an update to Ubuntu 16 and if I don't upgrade, but
just click OK it exits. If I run sudo apt-get install texinfo it
tells me I have the latest version. If I download the texinfo 6.1
tarball, extract it, and run configure. make and make install it
does stuff, but makeinfo --version from my build directory still say
I have 5.2.
Anyone with any suggestions for getting and installing 6.1?
I guess you just have to prepend `/usr/local/bin' to your path.
Usually, you can do this in your `~/.bashrc' file.
Alternatively, assuming that you want a safe location for texinfo 6.1
that won't get accidentally deleted or overwritten, you could try the
following.
sudo mkdir /opt
cd texinfo-6.1
./configure --prefix=/opt ...
make
make install
cd lilypond
PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH ./configure ...
PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH make doc
A bit odd. I checked my path following your advice and /usr/local/bin was
already there. So I tried makeinfo --version again from my lilypond
directory and this time it said version 6.1. So I re-ran configure and it
was OK.
Guess the path statement was reread when the computer was idle.
--
Phil Holmes
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