* Issue with makeinfo dependency [not found] <577616580.513554.1589800404625.ref@mail.yahoo.com> @ 2020-05-18 11:13 ` Ergus 2020-05-18 11:48 ` Noam Postavsky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Ergus @ 2020-05-18 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 755 bytes --] Hi: 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 distributions like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cause they provide texi2html as a modern replacement. The real issue is that emacs' configure doesn't detect this and I only get an error at the end of the build. make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/almacen/repo/gits/emacs/build_debian/doc/misc' GEN ../../../doc/misc/../../info/efaq.info/bin/bash: makeinfo: command not found Should we modify this Makefile.in to use texi2html conditionally when makeinfo isn't detected? Or are there a any known compatibility problem with the "new" texi2* family?? BestErgus [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 976 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Issue with makeinfo dependency 2020-05-18 11:13 ` Issue with makeinfo dependency Ergus @ 2020-05-18 11:48 ` Noam Postavsky 2020-05-18 17:33 ` Paul Eggert 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Noam Postavsky @ 2020-05-18 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ergus; +Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 07:13, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> 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 distributions like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cause they provide texi2html as a modern replacement. Debian provides makeinfo in the package called texinfo: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=makeinfo&suite=testing 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 get an error at the end of the build. > > make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/almacen/repo/gits/emacs/build_debian/doc/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 >= 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Issue with makeinfo dependency 2020-05-18 11:48 ` Noam Postavsky @ 2020-05-18 17:33 ` Paul Eggert 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Paul Eggert @ 2020-05-18 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Noam Postavsky, Ergus; +Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 07:13, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> 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 distributions like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cause they provide texi2html as a modern replacement. As a side note, texi2html isn't a "modern replacement" for makeinfo. It's more the other way around, as texi2html got merged into makeinfo. See: https://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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