Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL

[Noam Postavsky]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Well, do you have makeinfo >= 4.13?  If not, then the build process
>> now identifies this problem correctly where it previously failed to do
>> so.
>
> I don't have it but the build I did a month ago has the info/*.info files so 
> is a mystery what created them a month ago... unless some WSL update (apt 
> update, upgrade etc. ) has removed it... :(
>
> I don't want to install the texinfo package which would install a bunch of 
> texlive packages (I already have TeXLive installed from its site...)

The change is probably related to Bug#29931

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29931