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From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
To: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Issue with makeinfo dependency
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 11:13:24 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <577616580.513554.1589800404625@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 577616580.513554.1589800404625.ref@mail.yahoo.com

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Hi:

I am building emacs in a new system and I have seen that by default there is a dependency with makeinfo. The latest releases of most popular distributions like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cause they provide texi2html as a modern replacement.

The real issue is that emacs' configure doesn't detect this and I only get an error at the end of the build. 

make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/almacen/repo/gits/emacs/build_debian/doc/misc'  GEN      ../../../doc/misc/../../info/efaq.info/bin/bash: makeinfo: command not found
Should we modify this Makefile.in to use texi2html conditionally when makeinfo isn't detected? Or are there a any known compatibility problem with the "new" texi2* family??

BestErgus

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       reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <577616580.513554.1589800404625.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-05-18 11:13 ` Ergus [this message]
2020-05-18 11:48   ` Issue with makeinfo dependency Noam Postavsky
2020-05-18 17:33     ` Paul Eggert

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