Keith Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 9:28 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Am I missing something? For building the info files you need the
`texinfo' package but no TeX, and this is a developer's
prerequisite I
won't drop.
Attempting to build from CVS, without texinfo installed, or with
texinfo
version < 4.8, causes make to abort at the point where the info
files should
be compiled. Immediately typing `make' again resumes the build, which
apparently completes successfully, but leaves corrupt info files in
the build
tree. A `make install' at this point would appear to complete
successfully,
but the installed info files would be invalid.
Keith is correct. Personally, I think it's kind of sloppy to have
that happen;
the info files aren't necessary for using groff so I think the Right
Thing is
to have an option to disable building them.
Now I don't blame you for balking; autoconf is a hideous beast & I don't
like to poke around in there either. :-)
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/
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