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bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from mis
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:41:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It would be nice to have that, but basically it isn't our problem,
> IMO: building a tarball doesn't require makeinfo, while people who
> build from Git should IMO be expected to have a working Texinfo
> installation, which includes Perl modules necessary to run makeinfo.
Yes, you're right. If ./configure says that we can't find a (useable)
makeinfo, then it's up to the user to investigate the problem. In this
case, I'm guessing just typing "makeinfo" would have issued a bunch of
errors, which should point the user the right way -- and any changes we
make to configure here wouldn't really be that much more helpful.
So I'm closing this bug report.
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