From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Madhu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build Emacs from source without makeinfo >= 4.13 Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:53:48 +0530 Message-ID: References: <86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2900"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:G5tUU0qcUVcIbzlPsQeCpymS+FA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 14:24:04 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1sOcYG-0000X9-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:24:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sOcXn-0001dM-34; Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sOcXl-0001cs-Tc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sOcXj-0003RN-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sOcXh-000A14-Dm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:23:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147053 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii <86jzi94o5d.fsf@gnu.org> : Wrote on Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:44:30 +0300: >> From: Pierre Rouleau >> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:02:23 -0400 >> I am trying to get a relatively recent version of Emacs built on Rocky >> Linux 8.10. >> >> A make on the emacs source tree obtained from the Git repo gives me: >> >> configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your >> source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory. >> Please install a suitable version of makeinfo. >> make: *** [GNUmakefile:110: Makefile] Error 1 >> >> I have been trying to find ways of getting around this, but can't find it. >> >> Any suggestion? > > If you are building from Git, you must have a recent enough Texinfo > installed, and there's no way around that, except if you manually hack > the build scripts in some way I cannot imagine. 1. Try MAKEINFO=/bin/true make, if that doesn't work 2. edit configure.ac to make makeinfo requirement non-fatal ``` --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ AC_DEFUN if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then MAKEINFO=makeinfo if test ! -e "$srcdir/info/emacs" && test ! -e "$srcdir/info/emacs.info"; then - AC_MSG_ERROR( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your + AC_MSG_WARN( [You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory. Please install a suitable version of makeinfo.] ) else li ``` > Why is it a problem to install Texinfo on Rocky Linus 8.10, whatever > that is?