From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:41:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87im099zlq.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20171216073852.1419.qmail@f4mail-235-231.rediffmail.com> <20171216214414.29031.qmail@f4mail-235-140.rediffmail.com> <875yw9cxbt.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <871r6xqxnl.fsf@gmail.com> <87a6llbgz4.fsf@gnus.org> <834kbtcu7y.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28879"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com, 29731@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 16:42:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYNt-0007K5-0H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43504 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYNr-00018U-Nj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYNl-00018C-SP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYNl-0004p5-Lg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYNl-0008Tl-Jn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:42:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29731 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 29731-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29731.162886567832526 (code B ref 29731); Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29731) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Aug 2021 14:41:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42857 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYN4-0008SX-Hh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:52414) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYN2-0008SI-R1 for 29731@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:41:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=whyP/0ggV1GWQzFNbxewdWlM0AROYcNDqQyZXevleFY=; b=ZTL/a9+s3fwUZwPt1qo6OV7mJ4 VtRlg3RktgZSTfmbKlW9JK1/B7i4SJ/UOb3d9CRSaEar9FWLMPf92eCKhwC2iULscpD3GaKG7hG+X WbSpUvLdgdruNFc/U3HUz6KWed2OBlj6AGPYAXMPslaWN5fu+F0FMmA1nS6johWwfr5Q=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=elva) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEYMr-00056t-Ss; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:41:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <834kbtcu7y.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:09:05 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:211777 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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. Yes, you're right. If ./configure says that we can't find a (useable) makeinfo, then it's up to the user to investigate the problem. In this case, I'm guessing just typing "makeinfo" would have issued a bunch of errors, which should point the user the right way -- and any changes we make to configure here wouldn't really be that much more helpful. So I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no