From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Issue with makeinfo dependency Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 07:48:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <577616580.513554.1589800404625.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <577616580.513554.1589800404625@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="41909"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 13:49:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jaeGl-000AkA-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 13:49:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaeGk-0006eI-6l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 07:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaeFx-0005rf-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 07:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi1-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::22f]:37843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaeFq-00078R-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 07:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi1-x22f.google.com with SMTP id r25so8700223oij.4 for ; Mon, 18 May 2020 04:48:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qGdu7Ph5hpBaCXfxrMyfN2C1LbkFMIXMZEoyhc6hP+I=; b=qYz4TtPP5eC2ZZYQAlYVFCB+3RJR1OxJqRanhsx9AtTrJ1XNPBxXQ90y3yzXe2U1ZC eTVSMjMjQPJErXysDkHov65WsthdntlOR2O/mVsj7vjZNOdN0VAkPkI57SrwWPfnVliO 7XO13TJ6gmFPGhv2MEl7KpMutCnFMpo4+zIgrfI5a+v+a5v0ovTYP9CdCVp/spwNYza4 9D2cqVnoT7MLOausXZ356Y6bEmAs6c3oySl+VHKOTywru98AtfUhow9hmQ/szLfQbEZd GYz8lhqGbh7JiNn5+2UsaNh2eZY3o4EHlacLWpnkRJ9QafuKeXKcMHGYbhQUAEYfxeB9 FGeg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qGdu7Ph5hpBaCXfxrMyfN2C1LbkFMIXMZEoyhc6hP+I=; b=OmWnxdnUrC+zdLkOHWCMdXxZwXHV3wkxETig0+groOeuoQjcSVHBajFYfyN0tRe1Ao P9t97TXfWYfSoST6hXlpRElJ20RtSfsIANa/VIUOUgJe6ANavceeyzS0OJar8neb6le+ g+Bsdt5eSy9g6zJXW4LU6h+2K1E2schFC13Garu3DA7D70HU70gxsh+OW83Ro2FVaMs3 KXr8zO9fVZ5vyHwIFNmU/ilrKa9jAvQZXVQydFXR0Ml9DQE1JoED5NzUgo0t+QERTuiE RCGWNtl9IcChIIpXhVnj4dj2jgaw4OTASHv+SJYBIcSjdcsjzy0i1ZsgOWToeE/otQBR JtIg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532j1tyIwx0ZOcGOV8HqPwvzvbgayLfmGf/diNIVpeliLZ1up6hm YuddSxOhd/t+idPJLbL4DFlUV6tDfQcS+WcOpz8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxVCRQvSFoxAiE/61g0d83v+2OFEcTX22JAneFES7pWgJYqgYH/Ks5VH0w4QLMHBXb9uJyR0Iro5I351cu9Frg= X-Received: by 2002:aca:a8c2:: with SMTP id r185mr386846oie.87.1589802498993; Mon, 18 May 2020 04:48:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <577616580.513554.1589800404625@mail.yahoo.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::22f; envelope-from=npostavs@gmail.com; helo=mail-oi1-x22f.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250735 Archived-At: On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 07:13, Ergus wrote: > I am building emacs in a new system and I have seen that by default there= is a dependency with makeinfo. The latest releases of most popular distrib= utions like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cau= se they provide texi2html as a modern replacement. Debian provides makeinfo in the package called texinfo: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=3Dcontents&keywords=3Dmakeinfo&= suite=3Dtesting Arch has texinfo as well: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/texinfo/ > The real issue is that emacs' configure doesn't detect this and I only ge= t an error at the end of the build. > > make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/almacen/repo/gits/emacs/build_debian/do= c/misc' > GEN ../../../doc/misc/../../info/efaq.info > /bin/bash: makeinfo: command not found configure.ac does have a check for it, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working for you: ## Require makeinfo >=3D 4.13 (last of the 4.x series) to build the manuals= . if test "${MAKEINFO:=3Dmakeinfo}" !=3D "no"; then case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in *' (GNU texinfo) '4.1[[3-9]]* | \ *' (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \ *' (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;; *) MAKEINFO=3Dno;; esac fi