Hello, Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> writes:
> 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 As explained by Hans-Bernhard, I think it is acceptable for a packages having a Texinfo based documentation to require its contributors to have 'makeinfo' installed. Thanks for the report. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
