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bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from mis
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Robert Pluim |
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bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old |
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Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:31:10 +0200 |
>>>>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>>>>> said:
Lars> "Mutiny " <mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com> writes:
>> I did some deep testing and found out that following perl(sic) modules
were
>> missing:
>> (excerpt from my setup perl modules script)
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>> cpan install Locale::Messages # emacs build
>> cpan install Text::Unidecode # emacs build
>> cpan install Unicode::EastAsianWidth # emacs build
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>> Thereafter ./configure and make&&make install working.
Lars> Does the Emacs build use Perl? I looked through configure and
Makefile
Lars> and didn't see any Perl mentions.
Lars> Anybody know?
No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build
emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked.
Robert
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