From: Madhu <enometh@meer.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:53:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m35xtof0dn.fsf@leonis4.robolove.meer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org
* Eli Zaretskii <86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org> :
Wrote on Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:44:30 +0300:
>> From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:02:23 -0400
>> I am trying to get a relatively recent version of Emacs built on Rocky
>> Linux 8.10.
>>
>> A make on the emacs source tree obtained from the Git repo gives me:
>>
>> configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your
>> source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory.
>> Please install a suitable version of makeinfo.
>> make: *** [GNUmakefile:110: Makefile] Error 1
>>
>> I have been trying to find ways of getting around this, but can't find it.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>
> If you are building from Git, you must have a recent enough Texinfo
> installed, and there's no way around that, except if you manually hack
> the build scripts in some way I cannot imagine.
1. Try MAKEINFO=/bin/true make, if that doesn't work
2. edit configure.ac to make makeinfo requirement non-fatal
```
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ AC_DEFUN
if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then
MAKEINFO=makeinfo
if test ! -e "$srcdir/info/emacs" && test ! -e "$srcdir/info/emacs.info"; then
- AC_MSG_ERROR( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your
+ AC_MSG_WARN( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your
source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory.
Please install a suitable version of makeinfo.] )
else
li
```
> Why is it a problem to install Texinfo on Rocky Linus 8.10, whatever
> that is?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-02 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-27 21:02 How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13 Pierre Rouleau
2024-06-28 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-28 19:48 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-02 12:23 ` Madhu [this message]
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