Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:56 -0400
> Cc: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.

I agree with Jason: for distributed tarballs, makeinfo should not be
an obstacle.  I don't see what's confusing, either; care to explain?