From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com, 29731@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com
Subject: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:09:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kbtcu7y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6llbgz4.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:40:31 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:40:31 +0200
> Cc: Mutiny <mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com>, 29731@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build
> > emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked.
>
> Aha. Hm. Oh, Glenn had renamed this to:
>
> retitle 29731 configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old
>
> Which is, I guess, the correct description here. So makeinfo didn't
> work for the user because Perl was b0rked, but ./configure says that the
> user didn't have makeinfo.
>
> I guess that should be possible to distinguish...
It would be nice to have that, but basically it isn't our problem,
IMO: building a tarball doesn't require makeinfo, while people who
build from Git should IMO be expected to have a working Texinfo
installation, which includes Perl modules necessary to run makeinfo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-13 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-16 7:38 bug#29731: emacs build broken (makeinfo) Mutiny
2017-12-16 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 21:44 ` bug#29731: resolved&&advice Mutiny
2021-08-13 13:01 ` bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-13 13:31 ` Robert Pluim
2021-08-13 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-13 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-13 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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