Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

[carl hansen]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> The built texinfo 5.0 packages contain a few uses of 'perl' that are not
>>> pointing to a specific version in /nix/store:
>>
>> Yes, I know, but since in ‘core-updates’ we’ll change ‘patch-shebang’ to
>> handle /usr/bin/env specially, that’ll work well there.
>
> Okay.  In the meantime, 'mailutils' fails to build because of this
> problem:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   CCLD   libmu_scm.la
>   GEN    mailutils.scm
>   GEN    guile-procedures.txt
> /nix/store/777jas1fcgc38hmvq6lq1sa9k67f10kl-coreutils-8.20/bin/env: perl: No 
> such file or directory
> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.

FYI When I recently upgraded to texinfo-5, I had to make a soft link
ln -s  texi2any  makeinfo
The link was supposed to be made in the package, but it wasn't. It
might be relevant to you.