bug#29931: 27.0.50; Slightly suboptimal build behavior on macOS

[Alan Third]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 03:05:02PM +0000, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> schrieb am Mo., 1. Jan. 2018 um 15:59 Uhr:
> 
> > I’d think it’s the user’s responsibility to make sure /usr/local/bin
> > is on their path if they want to use homebrew stuff?
> >
> >
> /usr/local/bin doesn't contain makeinfo when installed via Homebrew. This
> is intentional; `brew info texinfo` says
<snip>
> If you need to have this software first in your PATH run:
>   echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/texinfo/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
> 
> I can obviously do that or set MAKEINFO explicitly when invoking configure,
> but it would be nice if configure detected this situation automatically.

Ah, I think I must have linked it into /usr/local/bin myself.

Do you have any idea if other packaging tools do similar things?

Patch attached.
-- 
Alan Third

0001-Use-Homebrew-installed-makeinfo-if-it-exists-bug-299.patch
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