On Sat, Jan 7, 2017, at 17:27, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > People using git sources can and should be expected to have more > complete tool chests than others, and makeinfo is well within the bounds > of what constitutes a reasonable tool collection for anyone wanting to > build GNU software from sources.
True. > > So, if nano.info and nano.html are already there, install them, but > > if they are not and 'makeinfo' is absent, don't even /try/ to build > > them. I don't see how I can achieve that. > > You shouldn't. Pretending the build, much less install, was successful > despite such a lack of documentation is just a bad idea. Okay. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service