Re: missing configure test

[Marius Vollmer]

"Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:01:59PM +0100, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> : "Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:
> : 
> : > Guile-core is using "makeinfo" in its build procedure, but the configure
> : > script doesn't check if it exists on the system (it might not :).
> : > Whether to abort configure or just disable the makeinfo step when it
> : > doesn't exist is left as an exercise for the implementor...
> : 
> : We will continue to build the online documentation along with
> : libguile, since it might depend on build options.  If makeinfo is not
> : available, we wont build any documentation at all.
> : 
> : Sounds reasonable?
> 
> At least to me.

What I did now is to use "cp" instead of makeinfo when makeinfo is not
found.  That way, you'll still get documentation, but it will be the
texinfo source instead of formatted text.