From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:38:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481CDB4D.2070306@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lgzlr72isn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>
>
>> This change is wrong. The distributed tarballs have prebuilt manuals in
>> them, so configure should not abort because of makeinfo being missing or
>> an old version.
>>
>
> It already does abort, so this is nothing to do with my latest change.
> I have added an explanation, plus a simple way to get past such an abort.
>
> Change it to not abort at all if $srcdir/info/emacs exists if you
> like; but personally I think it will be confusing.
>
It is confusing now, as makeinfo is not needed at all to build a
released version of Emacs, but configure aborts if a recent version is
not installed.
Your addition of that test on 2007-08-24 should have instead been an
update to the existing test in the maybe_bootstrap rule of Makefile.in.
But it looks like you didn't realize that the existing test was there
until 2008-01-16, when you removed it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 21:38 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
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 [this message]
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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