Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo

[Magnus Henoch]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

The "missing" script could handle this.  When it doesn't find makeinfo,
it touches the info file if it exists, or otherwise gives an error.

Magnus