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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add dependency on texinfo in README
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:41:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9bik7zh.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2XvwLY-MXCF1qzXerMGwmhtLiryh6czjzz-Fvo2WFFK59LxQ@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:59:07 +0200")

Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> writes:

> Does this make sense (see attached patch)?
>
> Forgetting to install the texinfo packages has bitten myself several times.

Sure, looks good to me.

    Thanks!
      Mark


> From 732fe1af508aeb65588981839dfc01172ec79f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:56:16 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Add texinfo dependency to README
>
> * README: Add texinfo dependency.
> ---
>  README | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 575ea5c3b..83569dde2 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ Guile requires the following external packages:
>  
>      - LIBFFI_LIBS=<linker flags for picking up the libffi library>
>  
> +  - texinfo
> +
> +    Guile uses `makeinfo' to create info documentation in the directory
> +    and `install-info' (which is provided by a separate package in some
> +    distributions) to install it.
> +
>  
>  Special Instructions For Some Systems =====================================



      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-25  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-24 18:59 Add dependency on texinfo in README Mikael Djurfeldt
2018-10-25  3:41 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]

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