Added notice about an old version of install-info.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@519 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index f3c88ed4e..c0c55fd15 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ files, in case the original distribution uses glibc-2.0.x.
 </para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>
+Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version of install-info.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
 Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils to libexecdir=/bin.
 </para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter05/bash-inst.xml b/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
index a6615980a..3ff584bcb 100644
--- a/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
@@ -36,5 +36,30 @@ first and adjust the path in the following commands accordingly:
 
 </literallayout></blockquote>
 
+<para>
+If the make install phase ends with something along the lines of
+</para>
+
+<blockquote>
+<screen>
+install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir' 
+usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn] 
+	[--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn] 
+	[--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx]
+	[--info-dir=xxx] 
+	[--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
+	[--remove] [--] filename 
+make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 
+make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-2.04/doc' 
+make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
+</screen>
+</blockquote>
+
+<para>
+then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have an
+old version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: the
+info pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in chapter 6.
+</para>
+
 </sect2>