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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Jan Synáček" <jan.synacek@gmail.com>
Cc: 21974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo'
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:40:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACA+5f2On5jqc9bcmYHtTJU8B57hQww92R06oZ9rnRTxcxFudQ@mail.gmail.com> ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?B\?U3luw6HEjWVrIidz\?\= message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:19:18 +0100")

Jan Synáček <jan.synacek@gmail.com> skribis:

> The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on
> the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail
> if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?).

‘makeinfo’ is necessary when building from a checkout or otherwise
modifying the manual, but it’s not necessary when building from a
tarball.  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-from-Git.html>.

Can you confirm you were building from a checkout?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-21 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-21 20:19 bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' Jan Synáček
2015-11-21 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-11-21 20:48   ` Jan Synáček
2015-11-22 10:31     ` Ludovic Courtès

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