From: "Jan Synáček" <jan.synacek@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 21974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo'
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:48:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACA+5f3jiy4fz_buBZKwNmyjdeY3Pv-kjK0c+VSRhe_jebvyUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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?
Yes, I was building from a checkout. Maybe it would make sense to make
it optional,
as 'help2man' is? I was only trying to test the latest version of guix
and wasn't really
interested in the documentation changes.
--
Jan Synáček
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-21 20:49 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
2015-11-21 20:48 ` Jan Synáček [this message]
2015-11-22 10:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
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