From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18449.25073.494568.381521@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18450.1350.18815.221139@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18450.21976.563496.841851@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209166050 11661 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2008 23:27:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 26 01:28:05 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JpXKj-0000m0-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpXK3-0001uL-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpXIz-0000y7-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpXIy-0000wa-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50743 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpXIy-0000wT-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JpXIx-0001Yz-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JpXIt-0006Dk-65; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:07 -0400 X-Spook: Afghanistan Ortega brigand CDMA corporate security X-Ran: y7Zcil9|7*CW*[`WE>%N0L<7jQ)o!bL=*q\{Z6qJmj&)(g&E_=V*b)m3NRYYF5GZoC3XmK X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <18450.21976.563496.841851@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:06:16 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95959 Archived-At: Nick Roberts wrote: > Clearly it's not a _big_ issue as no-one else has reported a problem > but it seems logical to me that if texinfo is missing/too old then > Emacs just gets built without the manuals and this is reported at > configure time. How about doing the same kind of thing as is now done with X and image libraries: by default configure aborts if these are missing, but you can pass an option to indicate you want to build without them. These are features that almost everyone wants, and having configure just print a message that they are missing was often overlooked.