23.0.0; Failure to ./configure despite recent makeinfo

23.0.0; Failure to ./configure despite recent makeinfo

[Gerhard]

Hi, 

I downloaded emacs-unicode-2 with 

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co
-remacs-unicode-2 emacs

On configuring (with "./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk
--enable-font-backend --with-xft"), I get the following: 

_________________________________________________________

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for AIX... no
checking whether gcc understands -Wno-pointer-sign... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for install-info... /usr/bin/install-info
checking for install-info... (cached) /usr/bin/install-info
checking for install-info... (cached) /usr/bin/install-info
checking for gzip... /bin/gzip
checking for makeinfo... /usr/bin/makeinfo
configure: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...
___________________________________________________________

but a "makeinfo --version" gives

"makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11"

I guess the error is in "configure.in"

___________________________________________________

if test "$MAKEINFO" != "no" && \
  test x"`$MAKEINFO --version 2> /dev/null | $EGREP
'texinfo[[^0-9]]*([[5-9]]|4\.[[6-9]])'`" = x; then
                              ^^^^^
   MAKEINFO=no    
fi
___________________________________________________

Best,

Gerhard

Re: 23.0.0; Failure to ./configure despite recent makeinfo

[Glenn Morris]

Gerhard wrote:

> I downloaded emacs-unicode-2
[...]
> configure: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required
> ==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> but a "makeinfo --version" gives
>
> "makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11"

This was fixed some time ago in the CVS trunk.