Installed
programs: info, infokey,
install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex
The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and converting info pages.
The info program makes assumptions such as that a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail in UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:
patch -Np1 -i ../texinfo-4.8-multibyte-1.patch
Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:
patch -Np1 -i ../texinfo-4.8-tempfile_fix-2.patch
Prepare Texinfo for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Install the package:
make install
Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation:
make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
The meaning of the make parameter:
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:
cd /usr/share/info rm dir for f in * do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null done