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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:06:16 +1200 |
> >>> Do we really want to stop the build process completely just
> >>> because the online manuals can't be properly built?
>
> The "online manuals" are a vital part of Emacs, so yes...
They might be desirable but they're not vital. Emacs still works as an editor,
etc, without them.
> >> Indeed, no. Especially since they are supposed to be pre-built in
> >> the tarball.
>
> ...however in many cases they are pre-built.
>
> >> The test should/could be moved to the Makefile, maybe?
> >
> > Is this really an issue? texinfo 4.6 was released in 2003.
I was building Emacs on an old system to test it with an old version of
Gdb. Clearly it's not a _big_ issue as no-one else has reported a problem
but it seems logical to me that if texinfo is missing/too old then Emacs
just gets built without the manuals and this is reported at configure time.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo, Magnus Henoch, 2008/04/25