makeinfo check fails

makeinfo check fails

[Thomas Hühn]

Hi

I'm trying to install emacs from git. Alas, configure fails because of
no suitable makeinfo version.

|checking for makeinfo... no
|configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.6 [...]

My makeinfo is from texlive and it is in the path. To make sure I ran
configure like this:

PATH="~/texlive/bin/i386-linux:$PATH" ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars

No change.

My makeinfo is "makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.12".

Any ideas?

Thomas

Re: makeinfo check fails

[Glenn Morris]

Thomas Hühn wrote:

> |checking for makeinfo... no
> |configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.6 [...]
>
> My makeinfo is from texlive and it is in the path. To make sure I ran
> configure like this:
>
> PATH="~/texlive/bin/i386-linux:$PATH" ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
>
> No change.
>
> My makeinfo is "makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.12".

Seems fine. This passes the test configure applies:

echo 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.12' | \
  egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-4][0-9]+|[5-9]|4\.[6-9]|4\.[1-5][0-9]+)'

(where configure has already set 'egrep' to whatever is appropriate.)

> Any ideas?

Does

echo $MAKEINFO

return anything? If so, try

unset MAKEINFO

Otherwise, examine configure output and config.log for more details
related to makeinfo. Eg, what does it say at:

checking for makeinfo...  ???

Re: makeinfo check fails

[Thomas Hühn]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

>> My makeinfo is "makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.12".
>
> Seems fine. This passes the test configure applies:
>
> echo 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.12' | \
>   egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-4][0-9]+|[5-9]|4\.[6-9]|4\.[1-5][0-9]+)'
>
> (where configure has already set 'egrep' to whatever is appropriate.)

Thanks, Miles. Another reader already helped me see my mistake. makeinfo
was indeed not found at all (and I thought it was a version problem). My
path was incorrect.

I was able to build Emacs now.

Thomas