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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo |
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Sat, 03 May 2008 21:58:47 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Jason Rumney wrote:
> 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.
You're probably right; I'm probably confused.
I'll try and sort it out, but it probably won't be immediate.
This message brought to you by the word "probably". :)
Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo, Nick Roberts, 2008/05/04