Re: compiling emacs 29.3 "--without-makeinfo" and texinfo 4.13

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 21:06:14 +0000
> 
> Hi. Eli.
> 
> I tried It. The error happens doing just configure ....; make 
> 
> But I have noticed something weird at the end of the creation of config.status
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ../../../build-aux/move-if-change: line 69: cmp: command not found
> config.status: executing etc-refcards-emacsver.tex commands
> ../build-aux/move-if-change: line 69: cmp: command not found
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-makeinfo
> configure: You might want to install GNU Mailutils
> <https://mailutils.org> and use '../configure --with-mailutils'.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Does this cmp command could be the cause?

How can you NOT have 'cmp'??

> Also this chroot has not git installed (Should It still wait for git?)

Yes, it should.  It's harmless.

> And finally makeinfo was called (on the release tarball):

That shouldn't happen.  I'm guessing the time stamps of some *.texi
files are newer than the corresponding Info files.  You need to figure
out why.