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.help Subject: Re: How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:44:30 +0300 Message-ID: <86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25168"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 07:45:24 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1sN4QF-0006Kb-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sN4PY-0006Ly-19; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sN4PS-0006Lc-Hk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sN4PS-00056s-9a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:44:34 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=pLbEwRtyoCRzsfV9YG1s41BcKE14fn+xEIY+OIpDx7Q=; b=PvI9bCuBzNzu P0zwMfWsZfkKbgS7b9J+g3V0sdkffq+eKTxMEEp9RURbThiyFj57OBtH/8seq14Gbmy8MXx0NnZ8D tCt/nKqg2iF8thu1tAE9jdoVv2fJd9dmT5VBszHlLMTSR134EASe2AgSygcuoDAtyBc2fFiIoVloG OrRPqiGDyxl4c/XeP1W3TuLWHB0Nz+tGEb4kakEOT5uQePVrp7m5qg2VxMdS7Jd3H0QU7A7mzLnlS kAajOZFJDu0tAobclesgNgUAK4ZMYhZQ2iytW6zCpaUWw2Kuyyp2MxTFIhOoRxDBtti9h+Lrbp0fc nMaIlZvkVKK3K9xM4GVsRQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Pierre Rouleau on Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:02:23 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147013 Archived-At: > From: Pierre Rouleau > 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?