From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Mutiny <mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com>, 29731@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:31:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r6xqxnl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yw9cxbt.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200")
>>>>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> "Mutiny " <mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com> writes:
>> I did some deep testing and found out that following perl(sic) modules were
>> missing:
>> (excerpt from my setup perl modules script)
>>
>> cpan install Locale::Messages # emacs build
>> cpan install Text::Unidecode # emacs build
>> cpan install Unicode::EastAsianWidth # emacs build
>>
>> Thereafter ./configure and make&&make install working.
Lars> Does the Emacs build use Perl? I looked through configure and Makefile
Lars> and didn't see any Perl mentions.
Lars> Anybody know?
No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build
emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-13 13:31 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 [this message]
2021-08-13 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-13 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-13 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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