Re: grep-2.5.3 requires makeinfo

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Hi Jeff,

The repository version of grep-2.5.3 requires makeinfo. However, the
source release of grep-2.5.3, generated using 'make dist', does not. I
believe that any "generated" files are not included in the repository.
All the necessary generated files are (or should be) created before the
release source. You can download the latest (unofficial) release source
from:

http://www.dal-acm.ca/~taa/grep/

Cheers,

TAA

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Tony Abou-Assaleh
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

> The makeinfo.README file in the GNU top-level directory says:
>
> "makeinfo is part of the texinfo distribution.
> Get texinfo-*.tar.gz.
>
> However, all GNU distributions should come with prebuilt info files,
> thus makeinfo should not be needed.  If you notice a distribution
> that does not come with *.info files, please report it as a bug."
>
>
> When I was building grep-2.5.3 on Solaris 2.10 using GNU make-3.8.1, I
> got an error that it could not find makeinfo, implying that this was
> not true for this distribution:
>
> /bin/bash: line 9: makeinfo: command not found
> make[2]: *** [grep.info] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/app/grep-2.5.3/doc'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/app/grep-2.5.3'
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
>
>