From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 21:58:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wlr6ciakyw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481CDB4D.2070306@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sat, 03 May 2008 22:38:21 +0100")
Jason Rumney wrote:
> It is confusing now, as makeinfo is not needed at all to build a
> released version of Emacs, but configure aborts if a recent version is
> not installed.
> Your addition of that test on 2007-08-24 should have instead been an
> update to the existing test in the maybe_bootstrap rule of Makefile.in.
> But it looks like you didn't realize that the existing test was there
> until 2008-01-16, when you removed it.
You're probably right; I'm probably confused.
I'll try and sort it out, but it probably won't be immediate.
This message brought to you by the word "probably". :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 1:58 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
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 [this message]
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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