I searched the archives at http://fly.srk.fer.hr/archive/wget and saw that this problem originally occurred in 1.6, but apparently the proposed patch never made it in. What happens is, when built outside of the source heirarchy, and configure is called like ../wget-1.7/configure, then make install fails to install the info files. The patch proposed (and apparently rejected at the time), reverted to earlier (1.5.3?) style Makefile.in that prepended $(srcdir)/ to wget.info. One question that came up in the thread was "What do GNU projects do in this case." So I looked at a canonical GNU project, binutils. If built outside of srcdir, an the original texinfo files are touched, or the info files (in the srcdir) are deleted, they are not regenerated. I did not test what would happen if configured inside of srcdir. Considering the fact that wget should be packaged with up to date info files (as pointed out in the earlier thread), and that not everyone will have makeinfo installed anyway, that it is safe to revert back to the 1.5.3 method of installing info files from $(srcdir). Btw, a comment on the archives at http://fly.srk.fer.hr/archive/wget. That URL does not appear to be working. If anyone knows anyone there, could you point it out? I had to use the mbox format archive. Rather large. :-> Also, if any discussion is taken up on this, could you keep me on the CC list. If it gets interesting, I'll subscribe. Normally I'd follow via the archive list but as it's currently inaccessible... Cheers, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc
