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Re: Issue with makeinfo dependency
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
Re: Issue with makeinfo dependency |
Date: |
Mon, 18 May 2020 07:48:02 -0400 |
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 07:13, Ergus <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am building emacs in a new system and I have seen that by default there is
> a dependency with makeinfo. The latest releases of most popular distributions
> like Arch, Debian or Ubuntu doesn't provide such program anymore cause they
> provide texi2html as a modern replacement.
Debian provides makeinfo in the package called texinfo:
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=makeinfo&suite=testing
Arch has texinfo as well:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/texinfo/
> The real issue is that emacs' configure doesn't detect this and I only get an
> error at the end of the build.
>
> make[2]: Entering directory
> '/mnt/almacen/repo/gits/emacs/build_debian/doc/misc'
> GEN ../../../doc/misc/../../info/efaq.info
> /bin/bash: makeinfo: command not found
configure.ac does have a check for it, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't
be working for you:
## Require makeinfo >= 4.13 (last of the 4.x series) to build the manuals.
if test "${MAKEINFO:=makeinfo}" != "no"; then
case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in
*' (GNU texinfo) '4.1[[3-9]]* | \
*' (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \
*' (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;;
*) MAKEINFO=no;;
esac
fi