Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> From configure:
>> if test "$MAKEINFO" = "no"; then
>> { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&5
>> echo "$as_me: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required " >&2;}
>> { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>> fi

>> Do we really want to stop the build process completely just because the 
>> online
>> manuals can't be properly built?

> Indeed, no.  Especially since they are supposed to be pre-built in
> the tarball.  The test should/could be moved to the Makefile, maybe?

Is this really an issue? texinfo 4.6 was released in 2003.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> lists it under "Very old
releases, for historical and archeological purposes." :-)

Ulrich