On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Scott Reynolds wrote:

> This change is a nice thought and all, but once we've built texinfo the
> first time, why do we have to keep compiling it early in the process for
> every subsequent build?  It's a one-shot event, it was announced on
> current-users, and it's costly on slower platforms.  [...]

I forgot to mention one thing:  the change also fails to work as expected
if a non-root DESTDIR build is attempted.

--scott