CVS HEAD: configure: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required on Mac OS X

[Denis Bueno]

With current CVS HEAD as of Fri Sep 14 12:37:35 EDT 2007 on my
computer, Darwin rrdhcp152-483.redrover.cornell.edu 8.10.1 Darwin
Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007;
root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386:

    emacs[37] > make maintainer-clean; ./configure --enable-carbon-app
    make: *** No rule to make target `maintainer-clean'.  Stop.
    checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
    checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
    checking for gcc... gcc
    checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
    checking whether the C compiler works... yes
    checking whether we are cross compiling... no
    checking for suffix of executables...
    checking for suffix of object files... o
    checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
    checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
    checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
    checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E -no-cpp-precomp
    checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
    checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
    checking for AIX... no
    checking whether gcc understands -Wno-pointer-sign... yes
    checking whether ln -s works... yes
    checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E -no-cpp-precomp
    checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/local/bin/ginstall -c
    checking for ranlib... ranlib
    checking for install-info... /opt/local/bin/install-info
    checking for install-info... (cached) /opt/local/bin/install-info
    checking for install-info... (cached) /opt/local/bin/install-info
    checking for gzip... /opt/local/bin/gzip
    checking for makeinfo... /opt/local/bin/makeinfo
    configure: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required

But:

    emacs[38] > /opt/local/bin/makeinfo --version
    makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11

    Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Is this my problem or Emacs'?

                      Denis
--
"Editing is a rewording activity." -- Alan Perlis