From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6ve25v7n4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18450.21976.563496.841851@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:06:16 +1200")
Nick Roberts wrote:
> Clearly it's not a _big_ issue as no-one else has reported a problem
> but it seems logical to me that if texinfo is missing/too old then
> Emacs just gets built without the manuals and this is reported at
> configure time.
How about doing the same kind of thing as is now done with X and image
libraries: by default configure aborts if these are missing, but you
can pass an option to indicate you want to build without them.
These are features that almost everyone wants, and having configure
just print a message that they are missing was often overlooked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-25 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-25 4:45 Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-25 16:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-04-25 18:48 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-25 22:06 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 23:26 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-05-03 20:17 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 21:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-03 21:12 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 21:38 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-04 1:58 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-04 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-05 18:31 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-04 21:15 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-25 22:47 ` Magnus Henoch
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