The --without-makeinfo flag doesn't work for me too, I have to change MAKEINFO=yes to MAKEINFO=no in the Makefile to compile without docs.

On March 29, 2014 9:04:50 PM GMT+05:30, Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap@nbtrap.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to build older versions of Emacs (e.g. 23.4) to test some
>libraries against, but the build keeps failing at the makeinfo stage
>(despite make's -k flag), apparently because of some texinfo error that
>older versions didn't flag as such.
>
>Is there a way to configure for a manual-less build without hacking the
>Makefiles?  The --without-makeinfo flag doesn't do what I thought.

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