From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:37:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42C65F1B.1030706@student.lu.se> <42C6894C.5080702@student.lu.se> <42C6BA4E.6050700@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120341721 19568 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 22:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 00:01:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doq3e-0005RP-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:01:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doq4m-0006VP-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DopyT-0003PK-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dopxt-00039n-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dopxm-00032k-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dopm7-0001br-6t; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j62Lbwch003967; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:37:58 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3C3DDDF8; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:38:23 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:16:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:40150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40150 Juanma Barranquero writes: > Did you mean "makeinfo"? Yes. >> Most binary versions floating around the >> net are several versions behind, and we keep using the latest info >> features in Emacs, so the latest makeinfo is essential. > > It *is* possible to build info on Windows without having to build > makeinfo yourself; it's tricky, though, and you've got to have the > right combination of info, makeinfo, install-info and make. Right. And that is why I have not inflicted automatic building of info files on Windows users in the past. It only affects those using CVS anyway (which could be an argument either way I suppose).