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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Add dependency on texinfo in README
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:59:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2XvwLY-MXCF1qzXerMGwmhtLiryh6czjzz-Fvo2WFFK59LxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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Does this make sense (see attached patch)?

Forgetting to install the texinfo packages has bitten myself several times.

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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 =====================================
 
-- 
2.11.0


             reply	other threads:[~2018-10-24 18:59 UTC|newest]

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

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