Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> schrieb am Mo., 1. Jan.
2018 um 14:13 Uhr:

> Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >   GEN      ../../info/auth.info
> > ./../emacs/docstyle.texi:3: warning: unrecognized encoding name `UTF-8'.
> >
> > This is because macOS ships an ancient version of makeinfo (4.8).
>
> Doesn't configure catch this?
>
>     ## Require makeinfo >= 4.13 (last of the 4.x series) to build the
> manuals.
>     if test "${MAKEINFO:=makeinfo}" != "no"; then
>       case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in
>         *' (GNU texinfo) '4.1[[3-9]]* | \
>         *' (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \
>         *' (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;;
>         *) MAKEINFO=no;;
>       esac
>     fi
>
>
Indeed, but only for a fresh checkout. Otherwise configure sees that info/
emacs.info already exists and thinks that it's a release build.
Maybe configure could check for .git instead? That should detect a Git
clone more reliably.