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bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo'
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' |
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Date: |
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:40:40 +0100 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Jan Synáček <address@hidden> skribis:
> The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on
> the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail
> if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?).
‘makeinfo’ is necessary when building from a checkout or otherwise
modifying the manual, but it’s not necessary when building from a
tarball. See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-from-Git.html>.
Can you confirm you were building from a checkout?
Thanks,
Ludo’.