Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Jason Rumney]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>   
> > How about doing the same kind of thing as is now done with X and image
> > libraries: by default configure aborts if these are missing, but you
> > can pass an option to indicate you want to build without them.
> >     
>
> Well, that was such a popular idea that I implemented it.
>   

This change is wrong. The distributed tarballs have prebuilt manuals in 
them, so configure should not abort because of makeinfo being missing or 
an old version.