Re: [Groff] Re: Info versus man

[Larry Kollar]

Keith Marshall wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 9:28 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > Am I missing something?  For building the info files you need the
> > `texinfo' package but no TeX, and this is a developer's  
> > prerequisite I
> > won't drop.
>
> Attempting to build from CVS, without texinfo installed, or with  
> texinfo
> version < 4.8, causes make to abort at the point where the info  
> files should
> be compiled.  Immediately typing `make' again resumes the build, which
> apparently completes successfully, but leaves corrupt info files in  
> the build
> tree.  A `make install' at this point would appear to complete  
> successfully,
> but the installed info files would be invalid.

Keith is correct. Personally, I think it's kind of sloppy to have  
that happen;
the info files aren't necessary for using groff so I think the Right  
Thing is
to have an option to disable building them.

Now I don't blame you for balking; autoconf is a hideous beast & I don't
like to poke around in there either. :-)

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