From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 39974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39974: Guile fails to build without makeinfo
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:07:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPi7W809bzq5NCM33iTAwudrox31KVhdg5xnmoDJVqtMDUnPrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeu3gapp.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi,
Le sam. 7 mars 2020 à 21:40, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> >> Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com> skribis:
> >>
> >> > guile fails to build without makeinfo:
> >> >
> >> > make[4]: Entering directory
> >> > '/nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/doc/ref'
> >> > MAKEINFO guile.info
> >> > /nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/build-aux/missing:
> >> > line 81: makeinfo: command not found
> >>
> >> AFAIK, ‘makeinfo’ is needed if and only if one modifies the .texi files,
> >> or perhaps the ‘configure’ file.
> >>
> >> Could it be what happened here?
> > Yes, this build failure is raised by one of our buidlroot autobuilders.
> > We're running autoreconf as we have a patch that updates configure.ac:
>
> OK. From Guile’s perspective, it’s not a bug that ‘makeinfo’ is needed
> in this case.
OK, then instead of this patch, do you think that adding a
--disable-doc option could be acceptable?
>
> > https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/guile/0002-calculate-csqrt_manually.patch.
> > If your interested in applying this patch upstream, I can send it to
> > the mailing list.
>
> I don’t think we would apply the patch because it’s uClibc-specific,
> AIUI.
>
> However, instead of patching ‘configure.ac’, you can run:
>
> ./configure guile_cv_use_csqrt=no
>
> to achieve the same effect as the patch.
>
> Let me know if it works for you!
OK, I'll update buildroot with your proposal as we try to avoid
carrying out non-upstreamable patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Best Regards,
Fabrice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-07 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-07 9:53 bug#39974: Guile fails to build without makeinfo Fabrice Fontaine
2020-03-07 16:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-07 16:35 ` Fabrice Fontaine
2020-03-07 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-07 22:07 ` Fabrice Fontaine [this message]
2020-03-08 11:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
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