From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <84d8aa8b-b7f1-ccdc-7e76-83cb502ef1a4@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1660422610.41541.1517499491889@mail.libero.it> <83r2q4ekqn.fsf@gnu.org> <558342619.48528.1517503590600@mail.libero.it> <83o9l8ei8e.fsf@gnu.org> <1510688534.63184.1517518773175@mail.libero.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517520304 13064 195.159.176.226 (1 Feb 2018 21:25:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 21:25:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 01 22:25:00 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 1ehMLr-00033L-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:24:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehMNs-0005qC-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehMMh-0005a2-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:26:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehMLd-0007C8-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:25:51 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:42982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehMKY-0005zu-Qe; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C83F1615B4; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 9pb9QnsTgy8Z; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C351615ED; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id TpPtM9qlyjSY; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C27F41615B4; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1510688534.63184.1517518773175@mail.libero.it> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:222374 Archived-At: 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.