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Re: [PATCH] Silence compiler warnings with MinGW64


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence compiler warnings with MinGW64
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 13:04:36 +0100

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 02:58:48PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That's true, as long as you want to build from a tarball.  If you want
> > to build from git, you have to install other stuff like:
> > 
> >   automake-wrapper
> >   msys2-runtime-devel
> >   libtool
> >   man-db
> >   help2man
> 
> Texinfo doesn't have an INSTALL.REPO file or something to that
> effect.  README-hacking might be it, but it seems to be notes by
> developers for themselves.  Gavin's call, I'd say.

Indeed, it's not our job to tell developers how to install automake and
the like on various platforms.  We already list which programs they need
in README-hacking; I don't see why that isn't enough.



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