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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:48:48 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>> Do we really want to stop the build process completely just
>>> because the online manuals can't be properly built?
The "online manuals" are a vital part of Emacs, so yes...
>> Indeed, no. Especially since they are supposed to be pre-built in
>> the tarball.
...however in many cases they are pre-built.
>> The test should/could be moved to the Makefile, maybe?
>
> Is this really an issue? texinfo 4.6 was released in 2003.
I agree with you. Perhaps the issue is the need to have _any_ version
of texinfo though.
The info files are already only deleted by `make maintainer-clean',
which "may require special tools to rebuild", so that's fine.
We don't check for autoconf etc either.
One problem I see is that the info files aren't in the CVS, so a fresh
checkout could fail to build. And also any update to the .texi files
will trigger a rebuild. So basically there are only problems with CVS
builds.
Perhaps a check early on in the Makefile will suffice, but it seems
a bit flaky?
Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo, Magnus Henoch, 2008/04/25