[Groff] texinfo, makeinfo and their relation to groff

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

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Hi there!

While I wasa trying to get rid of texinfo for a certain system
(runnig Gentoo Linux), I ran into the following comment inside the
doc/Makefile.sub (and Makefile.in):

>>>>>>>
# Since info files are distributed within the groff package, no
# autoconf test for the makeinfo binary is done.
MAKEINFO=makeinfo
<<<<<<<

Can somebody explain what that means?
Hard-wiring MAKEINFO to makeinfo without a test that it is really
present is not the best practice IMHO. For systems that do not have
texinfo installed it just breaks at compile time (in the doc directory).

I got the CVS and tracking this file down to revision 1.1 didn't
reveal any clue as to what the above comment is (it is present since
1.1).

Is there any particular reason to NOT test for makeinfo?

Kalin.

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