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: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:07:51 +0100 Message-ID: <481CD427.5050207@gnu.org> References: <18449.25073.494568.381521@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18450.1350.18815.221139@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18450.21976.563496.841851@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1k8wyr16sx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209848901 32469 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 21:08:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 21:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Ulrich Mueller , Stefan Monnier To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 23:08:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsOyS-00043S-FS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 23:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsOxl-0006Gh-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 17:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsOxf-0006Gc-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 17:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsOxc-0006GM-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 17:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40252 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsOxc-0006GJ-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 17:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsOxX-0005Kn-NQ; Sat, 03 May 2008 17:07:55 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 73799114/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEANJwHEhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBU6kj X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 03 May 2008 22:07:54 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0539C18B3; Sat, 3 May 2008 22:07:53 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <1k8wyr16sx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:96391 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Glenn Morris wrote: > > >> How about doing the same kind of thing as is now done with X and image >> libraries: by default configure aborts if these are missing, but you >> can pass an option to indicate you want to build without them. >> > > Well, that was such a popular idea that I implemented it. > This change is wrong. The distributed tarballs have prebuilt manuals in them, so configure should not abort because of makeinfo being missing or an old version.