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Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: Emacs can't be built without recent makeinfo
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:56 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Jason Rumney wrote:

> This change is wrong. The distributed tarballs have prebuilt manuals in 
> them, so configure should not abort because of makeinfo being missing or 
> an old version.

It already does abort, so this is nothing to do with my latest change.
I have added an explanation, plus a simple way to get past such an abort.

Change it to not abort at all if $srcdir/info/emacs exists if you
like; but personally I think it will be confusing.




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