cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

[Jeffrey Altman]

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After installing the texinfo 5.2.2 and texinfo-tex 5.2.3 packages I am
unable to find an installed makeinfo command in /usr/bin/.  I do however
find the makeinfo.1.gz man page contents.

This is using a new install of Cygwin64.

Is this an oversight?

Any work arounds?

Thanks for all of the hard work that is put into maintaining Cygwin and
packages for it.

Jeffrey Altman


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Re: cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

[Achim Gratz]

Jeffrey Altman writes:
> After installing the texinfo 5.2.2 and texinfo-tex 5.2.3 packages I am
> unable to find an installed makeinfo command in /usr/bin/.  I do however
> find the makeinfo.1.gz man page contents.

makeinfo should be a symbolic link to texi2any.


Regards
Achim.
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Re: cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 3/28/2015 9:12 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jeffrey Altman writes:
>> After installing the texinfo 5.2.2 and texinfo-tex 5.2.3 packages I am
>> unable to find an installed makeinfo command in /usr/bin/.  I do however
>> find the makeinfo.1.gz man page contents.
> 
> makeinfo should be a symbolic link to texi2any.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Achim.

Thank you Achim,

The symbolic link works from a Cygwin bash shell but not from a Windows
cmd or powershell.  texinfo 4.7.* had a separate makeinfo.exe which was
used by the native Heimdal build environment to generate docs from
Microsoft nmake.exe.

4.7.* is still available for 32-bit Cygwin but is not available for
64-bit Cygwin.

At least I now know what the issue is.

Jeffrey Altman



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