Re: The docs weren't building for me...

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Quoting Sam Roberts <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > I also had a strangeness. configure was checking for
> > <security/pam_appl.h> and saying it existed, but building imap4d failed
> > due to its non-existence. I installed the libpam??-dev package and it
> > built.
> 
> luser error. I'd reinstalled linux since the last time I built mailutils
> at work, and hadn't removed config.cache. Oops.
> 
> That wasn't the cause of the problem in programs.texi, I still get:
> 
> ~/s/mailutils/doc/texinfo $ make
> cd . \
>   && /bin/sh /fs/home2/sroberts/s/mailutils/missing --run makeinfo   \

                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Strange, do you have texinfo installed ?  You will need it.
Usually the *.info files are part of the distribution but not
of the cvs repository.

>              `echo mailutils.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`
> mailutils.texi:16: @include `version.texi': No such file or directory.
> ./programs.texi:189: warning: `.' or `,' must follow cross reference, not f.
> ./programs.texi:606: warning: `.' or `,' must follow cross reference, not f.
> ./programs.texi:802: warning: `.' or `,' must follow cross reference, not f.
> makeinfo: Removing output file 
> `/fs/home2/sroberts/s/mailutils/doc/texinfo/mailutils.info' due to errors; 
> use --force to preserve.
> 
>