Re: help broken in 3.8.0 ? Missing macros.texi

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On 2 Jan 2014, at 01:01, JFC <address@hidden> wrote:

> But if all the doc is prebuilt, a user does not need the tools for
> building it and thus can benefit from the --disable-docs switch.
> Unless using it breaks the help, of course...
> 
> I thought that --disable-docs was intended at least to avoid the
> dependency on a latex system (and possibly other tools).

It it is meant to avoid the dependency on TeX and Texinfo.
The online help needs Texinfo, so if you pass '--disable-docs' 
you're not expected to have a working Texinfo ad therefore
the help will not work.
c.