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wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

>   I haven't ever had any luck using install-info, and want to for the
> Emacs/W3 installation script (since it auto-detects whether install-info is 
> available or not).  Anybody got a makefile fragment that actually _works_
> with install-info?

	But what's the problem exactly ?

	Note that sometimes you can be fooled by corrupted dir files without
being warned. For instance, if your dir file contains SPACEs insstead of TABs,
install-info won't be able to add your entry. The pain ITA is that the
install-info version distributed in texinfo-3.11 doesn't warn you. It
simply does nothing and returns. In this very same version, there is a 
very good example of corrupted dir file ;-). (spaces instead of tabs)
This bug has been reported to the author.


>   I've got the relevant info in w3.txi:
> 
> @dircategory World Wide Web
> @dircategory GNU Emacs Lisp
> @direntry
> * Emacs/W3: (w3).                 Emacs/W3 World Wide Web browser.
> @end direntry
> 
>   which correctly outputs:
> 
> INFO-DIR-SECTION World Wide Web
> INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Emacs Lisp
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * Emacs/W3: (w3).                 Emacs/W3 World Wide Web browser.
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> 
> in w3.info

This looks correct :-)

