From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:24:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9l8ei8e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558342619.48528.1517503590600@mail.libero.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:46:30 +0100 (CET))
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:46:30 +0100 (CET)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Well, do you have makeinfo >= 4.13? If not, then the build process
> > now identifies this problem correctly where it previously failed to do
> > so.
>
> I don't have it but the build I did a month ago has the info/*.info files so is a mystery what created them a month ago... unless some WSL update (apt update, upgrade etc. ) has removed it... :(
If there's an info/emacs.info file, the error will not show up.
> I don't want to install the texinfo package which would install a bunch of texlive packages (I already have TeXLive installed from its site...)
AFAIU, you should be able to configure --without-makeinfo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 15:38 Failure building Emacs on WSL Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-01 16:46 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 16:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-01 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-02-01 20:59 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 21:23 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-02 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-02 16:17 ` Angelo Graziosi
2018-02-01 19:09 ` Fabrice Popineau
2018-02-01 20:52 ` Angelo Graziosi
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