Re: texi2dvi fails in faq

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 09/29/2010 01:20 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

Ugh.  Messy.  Simpler to just have --disable-docs...  Especially since
these tools and targets are normally only needed by developers.  If
you download a distributed tarball, you should not have to rebuild the
documentation files.  So do we really need to put a lot of effort into
making this part of the build process tolerant to missing tools?

jwe

Seems basically right. But, I will try to think of the simplest way
to make it clear that a missing/inoperable texinfo is the reason
for the ../doc things to fail.  The point of this is to avoid someone
spending time puzzling over why egrep has crashed, for instance.

Maybe a test in the ../doc/interpreter and ../doc/faq makefiles?

Michael