6.21. Installing Texinfo-4.1

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  10 MB

6.21.1. Installation of Texinfo

Install Texinfo by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex

6.21.2. Command explanations

make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex: This installs the texinfo components that belong in a TeX installation. Although TeX isn't installed on LFS, it's installed here to complete the texinfo installation.

6.21.3. Contents of texinfo-4.0

6.21.4. Dependencies

Texinfo-4.0 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
make: make
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep
texinfo: makeinfo
textutils: cat, tr