From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:09:05 +0300 Message-ID: <834kbtcu7y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171216073852.1419.qmail@f4mail-235-231.rediffmail.com> <20171216214414.29031.qmail@f4mail-235-140.rediffmail.com> <875yw9cxbt.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <871r6xqxnl.fsf@gmail.com> <87a6llbgz4.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33163"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com, 29731@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 16:10:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXtD-0008Ka-HI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49312 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXtC-0000nn-62 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXso-0000mQ-Lz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXso-0002ny-Fl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXso-0005Us-74 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:10:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29731 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 29731-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29731.162886376821084 (code B ref 29731); Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29731) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Aug 2021 14:09:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42794 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXsG-0005Tz-Cg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41922) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXsF-0005To-2g for 29731@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXs9-0002Tw-5O; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3465 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXs8-0006EY-Lp; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:09:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a6llbgz4.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:40:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:211771 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:40:31 +0200 > Cc: Mutiny , 29731@debbugs.gnu.org > > Robert Pluim writes: > > > No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build > > emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked. > > Aha. Hm. Oh, Glenn had renamed this to: > > retitle 29731 configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old > > Which is, I guess, the correct description here. So makeinfo didn't > work for the user because Perl was b0rked, but ./configure says that the > user didn't have makeinfo. > > I guess that should be possible to distinguish... It would be nice to have that, but basically it isn't our problem, IMO: building a tarball doesn't require makeinfo, while people who build from Git should IMO be expected to have a working Texinfo installation, which includes Perl modules necessary to run makeinfo.