From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:24:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9l8ei8e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1660422610.41541.1517499491889@mail.libero.it> <83r2q4ekqn.fsf@gnu.org> <558342619.48528.1517503590600@mail.libero.it> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517505822 4381 195.159.176.226 (1 Feb 2018 17:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 01 18:23:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIa7-0000Dp-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:23:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIc8-0007Y3-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:25:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIaU-0007LQ-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIaP-0001ls-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIaP-0001lk-KI; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1756 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehIaO-0008Ug-WE; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:23:45 -0500 In-reply-to: <558342619.48528.1517503590600@mail.libero.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:46:30 +0100 (CET)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222356 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:46:30 +0100 (CET) > From: Angelo Graziosi > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Well, do you have makeinfo >= 4.13? If not, then the build process > > now identifies this problem correctly where it previously failed to do > > so. > > I don't have it but the build I did a month ago has the info/*.info files so is a mystery what created them a month ago... unless some WSL update (apt update, upgrade etc. ) has removed it... :( If there's an info/emacs.info file, the error will not show up. > I don't want to install the texinfo package which would install a bunch of texlive packages (I already have TeXLive installed from its site...) AFAIU, you should be able to configure --without-makeinfo.