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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:30 +0200 |
>>>>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> From configure:
>> if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then
>> { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&5
>> echo "$as_me: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&2;}
>> { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>> fi
>> Do we really want to stop the build process completely just because the
>> online
>> manuals can't be properly built?
> Indeed, no. Especially since they are supposed to be pre-built in
> the tarball. The test should/could be moved to the Makefile, maybe?
Is this really an issue? texinfo 4.6 was released in 2003.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> lists it under "Very old
releases, for historical and archeological purposes." :-)
Ulrich
Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo, Magnus Henoch, 2008/04/25