From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:19:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C65F1B.1030706@student.lu.se> <42C6894C.5080702@student.lu.se> <42C6BA4E.6050700@student.lu.se> <42C70AE1.2080105@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120368313 32033 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 05:25:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 05:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 07:25:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dowyd-0000mJ-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dowzm-0006kW-Lu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyT-0006QW-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyO-0006MK-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyM-0006KF-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dowz1-0005PU-AV; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-35-17.inter.net.il [80.230.35.17]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BST41314 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:19:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-reply-to: (message from Jason Rumney on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 23:20:27 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40177 > From: Jason Rumney > Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 23:20:27 +0100 > Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Lennart Borgman writes: > > > Jason Rumney wrote: > > > > It seems to me that the emergence of the GnuWin32 project has helped > > quite a bit. > > It is some time since I looked, so it might be worth trying to find a > version that works that we can recommend to those who do not want to > go through the effort of building makeinfo themselves. I find the ports of the last two versions from GnuWin32 to be generally okay. The stand-alone Info reader is broken, since it uses termcap, and the Windows shell window doesn't support any termcap-style commands. But other than that, all the other binaries work quite well. So I think we should indeed add such a recommendation to INSTALL. But it would be nice not to need Texinfo if one is building the release tarball. I'll try to think of a way not to invoke makeinfo unless really required. Btw, there's one other related issue: why do we need to invoke install-info when we install the built binaries? THe file info/dir that comes with the distribution (and is part of CVS) already has all the entries in it, right? If we could eliminate the need for running install-info, it would be easier to avoid asking ``normal'' users to have Texinfo installed.