Re: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation

[Andreas Schwab]

Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> writes:

> === modified file 'configure.ac'
> --- configure.ac      2014-09-15 00:20:21 +0000
> +++ configure.ac      2014-09-22 17:36:48 +0000
> @@ -1099,16 +1099,25 @@
>  
>  ## Need makeinfo >= 4.7 (?) to build the manuals.
>  if test "$MAKEINFO" != "no"; then
> -  if test "$MAKEINFO" = "${am_missing_run}makeinfo"; then
> -    MAKEINFO=makeinfo
> +  for MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION in makeinfo texi2any; do
> +      if test "$MAKEINFO" = "${am_missing_run}${MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION}"; 
> then
> +         MAKEINFO=${MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION}
> +      fi
> +  done
> +  MAKEINFO_VERSION=`($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null`;
> +  MAKEINFO_CHECK=no;
> +  for MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION in makeinfo texi2any; do
> +      case $MAKEINFO_VERSION in
> +       "$MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION (GNU texinfo) "4.[7-9]* | \
> +          "$MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION (GNU texinfo) "4.[1-9][0-9]* | \
> +       "$MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION (GNU texinfo) "[5-9]* | \
> +       "$MAKEINFO_IMPLEMENTATION (GNU texinfo) "[1-9][0-9]*  )
> +           MAKEINFO_CHECK=yes;;
> +      esac
> +  done
> +  if [ $MAKEINFO_CHECK != yes ]; then
> +      MAKEINFO=no;
>    fi
> -  case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in
> -    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[7-9]]* | \
> -    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[1-9][0-9]]* | \
> -    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \
> -    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;;

Why can't you just replace it with a wildcard?  What's the point in
matching the exact program name?

Andreas.

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