Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I agree with Jason: for distributed tarballs, makeinfo should not be
> an obstacle.  I don't see what's confusing, either; care to explain?

Patch with explanatory comments.

*** configure.in	3 May 2008 20:16:15 -0000	1.526
--- configure.in	5 May 2008 18:28:14 -0000
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*** 896,916 ****
     MAKEINFO=no
  fi
  
! if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no" && test "x${with_makeinfo}" != "xno"; then
! 
!    if test -e $srcdir/info/emacs; then
!       gotinfo="seems"
!    else
!       gotinfo="does NOT seem"
!    fi
! 
!   AC_MSG_ERROR( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.6.
! You will not be able to build the Emacs manuals.
! In Emacs releases, they are prebuilt, so this might not be a problem.
! Your source tree $gotinfo to have manuals in the `info' directory.
  Either install a suitable version of makeinfo, or re-run configure
! with the `--without-makeinfo' option.] )
! 
  fi
  
  dnl Add our options to ac_link now, after it is set up.
--- 896,919 ----
     MAKEINFO=no
  fi
  
! ## Makeinfo is unusual.  For a released Emacs, the manuals are
! ## pre-built, and not deleted by the normal clean rules.  makeinfo is
! ## therefore in the category of "special tools" not normally required, which
! ## configure does not have to check for (eg autoconf itself).
! ## In a CVS checkout on the other hand, the manuals are not included.
! ## So makeinfo is a requirement to build from CVS, and configure
! ## should test for it as it does for any other build requirement.
! ## We use the presence of $srcdir/info/emacs to distinguish a release,
! ## with pre-built manuals, from a CVS checkout.
! if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then
!   if test "x${with_makeinfo}" = "xno"; then
!     MAKEINFO=off
!   elif ! test -e $srcdir/info/emacs; then
!     AC_MSG_ERROR( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.6, and your
! source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the `info' directory.
  Either install a suitable version of makeinfo, or re-run configure
! with the `--without-makeinfo' option to build without the manuals.] )
!   fi
  fi
  
  dnl Add our options to ac_link now, after it is set up.


*** Makefile.in	3 May 2008 20:16:32 -0000	1.345
--- Makefile.in	5 May 2008 18:28:21 -0000
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*** 554,560 ****
  	   fi; \
  	   cd ${srcdir}/info ; \
  	   for elt in $(INFO_FILES); do \
! 	      test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "no" && ! test -e $$elt && continue; \
  	      for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \
  	        ${INSTALL_DATA} $$f $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f; \
  	        chmod a+r $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f; \
--- 554,560 ----
  	   fi; \
  	   cd ${srcdir}/info ; \
  	   for elt in $(INFO_FILES); do \
! 	      test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "off" && ! test -e $$elt && continue; \
  	      for f in `ls $$elt $$elt-[1-9] $$elt-[1-9][0-9] 2>/dev/null`; do \
  	        ${INSTALL_DATA} $$f $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f; \
  	        chmod a+r $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$f; \
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*** 566,572 ****
  	if [ `(cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd)` != `(cd $(DESTDIR)${infodir} && /bin/pwd)` ]; \
  	then \
  	  for elt in $(INFO_FILES); do \
! 	    test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "no" && ! test -e $$elt && continue; \
  	    (cd $${thisdir}; \
  	     ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir=$(DESTDIR)${infodir} $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt); \
  	  done; \
--- 566,572 ----
  	if [ `(cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd)` != `(cd $(DESTDIR)${infodir} && /bin/pwd)` ]; \
  	then \
  	  for elt in $(INFO_FILES); do \
! 	    test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "off" && ! test -e $$elt && continue; \
  	    (cd $${thisdir}; \
  	     ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir=$(DESTDIR)${infodir} $(DESTDIR)${infodir}/$$elt); \
  	  done; \
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*** 785,792 ****
  # put the info files in $(srcdir),
  # so we can do ok running make in the build dir.
  info: force-info
! 	@if test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "no"; then \
! 	  echo "Configured without makeinfo, not building manuals" ; \
  	else \
  	  $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info-real ; \
  	fi
--- 785,795 ----
  # put the info files in $(srcdir),
  # so we can do ok running make in the build dir.
  info: force-info
! 	@if test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "off"; then \
! 	  echo "Configured --without-makeinfo, not building manuals" ; \
! 	elif test "$(MAKEINFO)" = "no"; then \
! 	  echo "makeinfo is missing - cannot build manuals" ; \
! 	  exit 1 ; \
  	else \
  	  $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info-real ; \
  	fi