From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:44:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALTqLiY2tb+v=ePNgzyNANSAqTdqQozSfo5KNDkQzy2FHciQ9A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Pierre Rouleau on Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:02:23 -0400)
> From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:02:23 -0400
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get a relatively recent version of Emacs built on Rocky
> Linux 8.10.
>
> A make on the emacs source tree obtained from the Git repo gives me:
>
> configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your
> source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory.
> Please install a suitable version of makeinfo.
> make: *** [GNUmakefile:110: Makefile] Error 1
>
> I have been trying to find ways of getting around this, but can't find it.
>
> Any suggestion?
If you are building from Git, you must have a recent enough Texinfo
installed, and there's no way around that, except if you manually hack
the build scripts in some way I cannot imagine.
Why is it a problem to install Texinfo on Rocky Linus 8.10, whatever
that is?
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2024-06-27 21:02 How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13 Pierre Rouleau
2024-06-28 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-28 19:48 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-02 12:23 ` Madhu
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