From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18450.1350.18815.221139@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlk32oxpb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> From configure:
>> if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then
>> { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&5
>> echo "$as_me: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&2;}
>> { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>> fi
>> Do we really want to stop the build process completely just because the online
>> manuals can't be properly built?
> Indeed, no. Especially since they are supposed to be pre-built in
> the tarball. The test should/could be moved to the Makefile, maybe?
Is this really an issue? texinfo 4.6 was released in 2003.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> lists it under "Very old
releases, for historical and archeological purposes." :-)
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-25 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-25 4:45 Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-25 16:22 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2008-04-25 18:48 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-25 22:06 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 23:26 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 20:17 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 21:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-03 21:12 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 21:38 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-04 1:58 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-04 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-05 18:31 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-04 21:15 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 22:47 ` Magnus Henoch
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