Re: makeinfo msg when make-install

[Derek R. Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Tracy Brown writes:
> >
> > I've never gotten this message before during the make install:
> >
> > if [ ! -f ./CVSvn.texi ]; then  ln -s ./CVSvn.texi . ||  ln ./CVSvn.texi .
> > ||  cp ./CVSvn.texi . ; else true; fi
> >         makeinfo ./cvs.texinfo -o cvs.info
> > makeinfo: not found
>
> That's because releases have the info files pre-built.  The patch
> updated the documentation source but not all of the resulting files, so
> you need the tools to build them (unless you don't care, in which case

Of course, things are supposed to be set up such that a missing makeinfo isn't a
fatal error.  I'm guessing you have automake 2.13 installed and you configured
on a system that has makeinfo installed and then ran 'make install' on a
different system?

Derek

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