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 18:29:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83r2q4ekqn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1660422610.41541.1517499491889@mail.libero.it> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517502527 4354 195.159.176.226 (1 Feb 2018 16:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:28:47 +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 17:28:43 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 1ehHis-0008Fw-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehHku-0006TS-2U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehHk4-0006SX-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehHk0-000334-EJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:29:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehHk0-00032x-Ag; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:29:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1618 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehHjz-00011x-NI; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:29:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <1660422610.41541.1517499491889@mail.libero.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:38:11 +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:222353 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:38:11 +0100 (CET) > From: Angelo Graziosi > > configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your > source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory. > Either install a suitable version of makeinfo, or re-run configure > with the '--without-makeinfo' option to build without the manuals. > GNUmakefile:72: set di istruzioni per l'obiettivo "Makefile" non riuscito > make: *** [Makefile] Errore 1 > > This didn't happened less than a month ago.. What changed? 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. If you do have makeinfo >= 4.13, then it's some kind of bug in the configure script.