From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84d8aa8b-b7f1-ccdc-7e76-83cb502ef1a4@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510688534.63184.1517518773175@mail.libero.it>
On 02/01/2018 12:59 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> When is 'makeinfo' used building Emacs?
>
> If I build with
>
> ./configure..
> ./make...
> ./make install
>
> is it really used?
It's not used if you're building from an Emacs distribution tarball,
which is intended to be portable even to platforms lacking many
developer tools. It is used if you're building from Git, where it's
assumed you have a development environment with the appropriate tools,
one of them being GNU texinfo.
It's probably best for you to arrange for your preferred environment to
have all these tools. If that's not possible for some reason, you can
first use GNU/Linux to create a tarball, and then copy the tarball to
your more-limited development environment and build from that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 15:38 Failure building Emacs on WSL Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-01 16:46 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 16:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-01 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-01 20:59 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 21:23 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-02-02 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-02 16:17 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 19:09 ` Fabrice Popineau
2018-02-01 20:52 ` Angelo Graziosi
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