Kurt Hornik wrote: > > Did you try configuring with MAKEINFO=false in your envrionment?
No, but I just have and it makes no difference. The relevant code in configure is: =============== echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for working makeinfo" >&5 echo $ECHO_N "checking for working makeinfo... $ECHO_C" >&6 if (makeinfo --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then MAKEINFO=makeinfo echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: found" >&5 echo "${ECHO_T}found" >&6 else MAKEINFO="\$(SHELL) \$(top_srcdir)/tools/missing makeinfo" echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: missing" >&5 echo "${ECHO_T}missing" >&6 fi =============== and that is always going to run "makeinfo --version" (which succeeds) and hence set MAKEINFO=makeinfo within the script. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel