Re: Texinfo 4.11 required [Re: Autotester: FAIL make -f lilypond.make LILYPOND_BRANCH=master doc-build]

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Sonntag, 11. November 2007 schrieb Graham Percival:
> Rune Zedeler wrote:
> > Am I the only one who thinks that requiring a texinfo that new is very
> > unfortunate?

I also think that's unfortunate...

> > Especially when we try to get more users to contribute to the
> > documentation.
>
> This is not a problem for GDP.  Trust me, I wrap my helpers in cotton.
> They don't even need to make their own diffs or find the source files
> themselves!

But they can't build anything without building texinfo themselves...

> > And ESPECIALLY because I find texinfo difficult to build.
> > Here, it barks with
> >
> > ...
> > terminal.o: In function `terminal_delete_lines':
> > /tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:365: undefined reference to `tgoto'
> > /tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:365: undefined reference to `tputs'
> > /tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:369: undefined reference to `tputs'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> How odd.  I've built texinfo 4.11 on Debian/stable, OSX/fink, and
> Ubuntu/7.10  (which I'm using now), and I never had any problems.

Maybe 
apt-get build-dep texinfo 
helps?

Actually, I built a debian package, but I had to fiddle around quite a lot to 
get it to build (in a way that doesn't interfere with future debian texinfo 
updates). But I didn't have the problem you describe...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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