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 17:35:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPi7W82i=Fw-ycyaoHyVbfGjx25NbWi5LKoFQT4+XZK9_5QJQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878skci21o.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello,
Le sam. 7 mars 2020 à 17:04, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> 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:
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.
>
> BTW, 2.0 is an old series that is no longer maintained (the current
> stable series is 3.0, and the previous one is 2.2).
Our current version of guile is indeed pretty old, one of our users
sent a patch to bump it to 3.0:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1246994.
However, I assume that this build failure won't be fixed in 3.0 as
we'll still have to update configure.ac.
So, in the end, I saw that HAVE_MAKEINFO was added quite a while ago (in 2001):
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=a9d78896d1737c429ca8640d5e2fe0814a2ea20c
However, this variable was never used so it seemed right to me to use
it to fix this build failure
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Best Regards,
Fabrice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-07 16:35 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 [this message]
2020-03-07 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-07 22:07 ` Fabrice Fontaine
2020-03-08 11:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
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