Make compressing the info files optional.

* configure.in (--without-compress-info): New option.
(GZIP_INFO): New output variable.

* Makefile.in (GZIP_INFO): New, set by configure.
(install-arch-indep): Don't gzip info pages if GZIP_INFO is nil.
Handle man pages in the same way.

* etc/NEWS: Re-order installation section, and add new item.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f4eef5a6eae..e9d29c9ea87 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
 
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
+You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
+
+---
+** By default, the installed Info and man pages are compressed.
+You can disable this by configuring --without-compress-info.
+
 ---
 ** There are new configure options:
 --with-mmdf, --with-mail-unlink, --with-mailhost.
@@ -34,9 +41,6 @@ lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
 ** There is a new configure option --with-crt-dir.
 This is only useful if your crt*.o files are in a non-standard location.
 
-** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
-You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
-
 
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1