investigating "failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory" problem

groff/groff.spec

@@ -95,3 +95,10 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
 %clean
     rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
+# FIXME: /usr/sbin/install-info --info-dir=/ltmp/openpkg-dv5-ix86-linux2.2/TMP/groff-1.18-root/re/info /ltmp/openpkg-dv5-ix86-linux2.2/TMP/groff-1.18-root/re/info/groff
+# FIXME: failes with error "failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory"
+# FIXME: where install-info is a perl script and the code snippet around the problem is a link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")
+# FIXME: The $infodir exists but the $infodir/dir (file?) does not. I don't know where it should come from
+# FIXME: $ cd /ltmp/openpkg-dv5-ix86-linux2.2/TMP/groff-1.18-root/re; ls -ld info info/dir
+# FIXME: drwxr-xr-x    2 rse      rse          4096 Aug 16 14:43 info
+# FIXME: ls: info/dir: No such file or directory