From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: makeinfo: missing file argument Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:29 -0400 Message-ID: <2my5qa4022.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20120404.105300.1704388016680899965.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp> <325DB88A-2085-40A5-87FB-27148D87A8B1@Web.DE> <20120405.091823.1371923682578117890.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333644538 11273 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 16:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kuroishi Mitsuo Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 18:48:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFprb-0004Vn-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:48:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFpWJ-0007Ts-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFpWD-0007TG-O2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFpW5-0007aJ-Pi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFpW5-0007aD-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFpW1-0004Ex-Q4; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:29 -0400 X-Spook: number key Mossad pink noise jihad BCCI constitution X-Ran: k#dpJ7>:'\iitRs,%QvGN_*l}dt)12DdK1Zd7t?O.'cmhx>Uu-?Z7u2s[B*41!l8=572>$ X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20120405.091823.1371923682578117890.kuroishi@iij.ad.jp> (Kuroishi Mitsuo's message of "Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:18:23 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84347 Archived-At: Kuroishi Mitsuo wrote: > (cd doc/emacs; make info) > /usr/bin/makeinfo --force --enable-encoding -I /home/kuroishi/download/emacs/doc/emacs -o /home/kuroishi/download/emacs/doc/emacs/../../info/emacs > makeinfo: missing file argument. The questions I would ask are: What version of make are you using? What is /bin/sh for you (eg bash, dash, etc)? After you configure, what does doc/emacs/Makefile look like? (best to send the whole thing as an attachment) Just to see if it works, try passing the --without-makeinfo argument to configure.