On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:38 AM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kah...@abc.se> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 04:24:07AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm testing some software from Master. My testing machines sometimes > > lack the distro tools like makeinfo. It results in things like this: > > > > ./bootstrap: 255: makeinfo: not found > > ./bootstrap: Error: 'makeinfo' not found > > > > I tried the MAKEINFO=true tricks but they did not work. > > > > How can I create an alias on the fly using code like this in Bash? > > > > if ! ./bootstrap; > > then > > echo "Failed to bootstrap Wget2" > > exit 1 > > fi > > > > Thanks in advance. > > This does not seem to be a bug in the bash shell. Maybe you meant > to post this the help-bash list?
My bad. I did not realize there was a separate user list. > Also, why not just install the > prerequisites for the software you're building? Some of the systems I test on are too old and don't have working repos to install things from. Others are resource constrained like ARM dev boards. The dev boards don't have the storage so I would prefer to skip the docs. Jeff
