On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 12:53:33PM -0500, Derek Moore wrote: > Following the INSTALL doc, I was building git with: > > make prefix=/usr/local all doc info I wonder if it is actually sane to recommend building "info" for newcomers in INSTALL. I do not know if many of the list regulars do so (I certainly do not), or if it is part of anybody's testing regimen. > $ git diff > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile > index cea0e7a..0e6c70a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Makefile > +++ b/Documentation/Makefile > @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ HTML_REPO = ../../git-htmldocs > > MAKEINFO = makeinfo > INSTALL_INFO = install-info > -DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = docbook2x-texi > +DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = db2x_docbook2texi > DBLATEX = dblatex > ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR = /etc/asciidoc/dblatex > ifndef PERL_PATH I don't think we would want to take a patch like this, as it is still called docbook2x-texi at least on Debian. You can override variables with: make DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=db2x_docbook2texi ... or if you want to use it for multiple make invocations: echo DOCBOOK2_TEXI=db2x_docbook2texi >config.mak If we want a patch to make this Just Work out of the box on Fedora, I'd suggest looking at config.mak.uname (though I am not sure if there is enough information there currently to determine Fedora versus another distro), and/or a patch to configure.ac to detect which name we have. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html