Re: compiling emacs 29.3 "--without-makeinfo" and texinfo 4.13

["andrés ramírez" <rrandresf@hotmail.com>]

Hi. Eli.

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> From: andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Date: Sat, 25 May
    >> 2024 15:24:00 +0000
    >> 
    Eli> Emacs doesn't support --without-makeinfo.  Building from Git requires makeinfo (building a
    Eli> release tarball does not, because all the manuals are included in the tarball).
    >> 
    >> This is the release tarball.

    Eli> When you build a release tarball, makeinfo is not needed at all, unless you changed some
    Eli> *.texi files.  So this is something that only you can investigate on your system.  When I
    Eli> build release tarballs, makeinfo is never invoked.

That has not been my case. :)

    >> this was a package compilation with 'dpkg-buildpackage'

    Eli> Then maybe the problem is with dpkg-buildpackage.  I have no idea what that is, and always
    Eli> build Emacs with "./configure" followed by "make".

I am going to try without dpkg-buildpackage and see how it goes. I am
going to report back when done.

Best Regards
Andrés Ramírez