Re: [Qemu-stable] Configure error with --enable-docs

[Binarus]

On 03.05.2013 11:52, Dunrong Huang wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Binarus <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I am trying to compile and install qemu 1.4.1 with the according man pages. 
> Obviously, when compiling / installing from source, the default is to not build 
> and install the man pages. Thus, I first tried to get an idea of the available 
> configure options by doing
>
>     ./configure --help
>
>     which had the following line in its output:
>
>        --enable-docs            enable documentation build
>
>     I was hoping that this option would be responsible for building / 
> installing the man pages, so I tried
>
>     ./configure --enable-docs
>
>     Unfortunately, this gave an error message:
>
>     ERROR
>     ERROR: User requested feature docs
>     ERROR: configure was not able to find it
>     ERROR
>
> Have you installed texinfo in your system? It's needed when building with 
> --enable-docs
>
>
>     Could somebody tell me how to resolve that error, or what else I could do 
> to get the man pages installed? I know that (after compiling / installing) I 
> can do qemu --help, but it doesn't help me much to see what command line 
> options are available; I need explanations about the meaning of each option.
>
>     By the way, the man pages for the version I have used until now (I think it 
> was 0.13) were absolutely brilliant - a big thanks to the developers!
>
>     Thanks for any help,
>
>     Binarus
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Dunrong Huang

Dunrong,

thank you very much for your help. I is working now.

Regards,

Binarus