From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3982: Emacs 23.1 configure/Makefile: MAKEINFO=no inconsistent with test for $(MAKEINFO)=off Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4A71F34B.2060301@bible2.net> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 3982@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249681643 32040 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 21:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:47:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3982@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: hs2009@bible2.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 23:47:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZXHP-0008UZ-QA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:47:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZXHO-0007iY-TV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZXHH-0007h2-Vy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZXHB-0007cV-EW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37378 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZXHB-0007cL-9g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:36059) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZXH0-0006C8-Oq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n77Lkm4x005460; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:46:48 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n77Le5Ur004813; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:40:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:40:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3982 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3982-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3982.12496807544262 (code B ref 3982); Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:40:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3982) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Aug 2009 21:32:34 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n77LWWUj004259 for <3982@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:32:34 -0700 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MZX38-0004v8-5r; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:30 -0400 X-Spook: Marxist ASO Baranyi ARPA rail gun electronic surveillance X-Ran: yn[4uqtAGU*ex8O8U/\nTMZDtafxGj:@+"q:PpV-0K7VTUE]E7N^8+d9(i)|bKHXg%@73E X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4A71F34B.2060301@bible2.net> (Helmut Steeb's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:23:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29974 Archived-At: Helmut Steeb wrote: > for http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.1.tar.gz > on KUbuntu 6.06, after running configure, I got a Makefile with > > MAKEINFO=no That's what you should get if you don't have makeinfo and don't pass the configure option --without-makeinfo. > (which seems to originate from configure line 5319), but all the tests > in the Makefile compare to "off", like > > test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "off"; Yes, because "off" is used to indicate that you've explicitly disabled the need for makeinfo, rather than it just being missing. > Therefore "make install" failed with > > makeinfo is missing - cannot build manuals As you can see from the context of this line in the Makefile, "off" and "no" have different meanings. > ==> either configure should create "Makefile=off", > or the Makefile tests should check for "no". No, you should pass the configure option --without-makeinfo. There is a real issue here though, and it is that the top-level Makefile does not check whether or not it needs to rebuild any manuals before checking the value of MAKEINFO. (The manuals are pre-built in the tarball, specifically so that you don't need makeinfo to install a released version of Emacs.) This only shows up when doing `make install'.