Re: makeinfo

[Keith MARSHALL]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote, quoting Bob Rossi:
>> When I run configure I get this error,
>> 
>> ...
>> Making all in src
>> Making all in doc
>> Updating ../../cgdb/doc/version.texi
>> /home/bob/cvs/cgdb/cgdb/cgdb/config/missing: line 46: makeinfo: command 
not found
>> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it 
if
>>          you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
>>          indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
>>          call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' 
(AIX,
>>          DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
>>          the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive 
site.
>
> Looks like a warning rather than an error to me.

Does to me too.

>> Do I need to have that program installed to run configure? I'm running
>> this out of a CVS repo of a program, that has all the autotool files
>> checked in. Not from a 'make dist' of the autotools.
>
> Does it have the .info files checked in?

Building from CVS often imposes more severe requirements than simply 
building
from a release tarball.  For example, GNU Troff (groff) doesn't keep 
*.info
files in CVS; users building from CVS are required to install texinfo >= 
4.8.
Of course, this should be documented in some README file, which *is* kept 
in
the CVS; (and yes, groff *does* fulfil this expectation).

Regards,
Keith.