Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Jason Rumney]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>
>   
> > This change is wrong. The distributed tarballs have prebuilt manuals in 
> > them, so configure should not abort because of makeinfo being missing or 
> > an old version.
> >     
>
> It already does abort, so this is nothing to do with my latest change.
> I have added an explanation, plus a simple way to get past such an abort.
>
> Change it to not abort at all if $srcdir/info/emacs exists if you
> like; but personally I think it will be confusing.
>   

It is confusing now, as makeinfo is not needed at all to build a 
released version of Emacs, but configure aborts if a recent version is 
not installed.
Your addition of that test on 2007-08-24 should have instead been an 
update to the existing test in the maybe_bootstrap rule of Makefile.in. 
But it looks like you didn't realize that the existing test was there 
until 2008-01-16, when you removed it.