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bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from mis
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old |
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Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:40:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build
> emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked.
Aha. Hm. Oh, Glenn had renamed this to:
retitle 29731 configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from
missing-or-old
Which is, I guess, the correct description here. So makeinfo didn't
work for the user because Perl was b0rked, but ./configure says that the
user didn't have makeinfo.
I guess that should be possible to distinguish...
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