From unknown Mon Jun 23 13:09:02 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#21974 <21974@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#21974 <21974@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' Reply-To: bug#21974 <21974@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:09:02 +0000 retitle 21974 can't build guix without 'makeinfo' reassign 21974 guix submitter 21974 Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek severity 21974 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Nov 21 15:19:43 2015 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Nov 2015 20:19:43 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47326 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0EdK-000854-Vi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:43 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37689) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ed0-00084a-6f for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ecz-0005om-Ew for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:22 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:58637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ecz-0005oi-C2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:21 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ecy-00043N-IX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ecx-0005nF-T7 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]:36342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ecx-0005mX-N7 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:19:19 -0500 Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so55204160wmw.1 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:19:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eFu+LlFNOHKJgH5snXSpInwIfJwSg31c+Y7sqJCf+Z0=; b=U0nJxvDZYXlsgCnJtJJixgmVWpRE+NPll36bR94nlN5jGL/OcSUaBr/491tpI7V1J+ 4o3wL5TJJQOOGp/8b4vVOrrXJEcFWCNmLTaKpFNrjBXAxeQkx8q77RC0hxXEI0BNLIfY Jh6Hqr042WAuteuGzhvf0WLM1UecbADQwZPxj1KoPWRCuuDSdn2W9omYhx4+1jPqq8qC o1J+8Ocgp+fyCWglaYljOzE1sryyzL+fsxR/rOVTmgKHmbCo1V8lPG0APle6LIshAuHZ AWVsxE0yWBQ4KN1QQP72fVJEAilfsAkX9LeGU0HOrrjV6zajMqNEeTUQ+EYSQpCJpEQn eHUQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.28.213.12 with SMTP id m12mr10610786wmg.26.1448137158844; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.27.155.66 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:19:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:19:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIFN5bsOhxI1law==?= To: bug-guix@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?). --=20 Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Nov 21 15:41:07 2015 Received: (at 21974) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Nov 2015 20:41:07 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47345 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Ey3-0000Eu-9c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:41:07 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41374) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Exj-0000E0-GN for 21974@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:41:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Exg-000209-7P for 21974@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:40:47 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Exg-000205-4Z; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:40:44 -0500 Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]:56722 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Exe-0005Qs-7M; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:40:42 -0500 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Jan =?utf-8?B?U3luw6HEjWVr?= Subject: Re: bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 Frimaire an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:40:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?B\?U3luw6HEjWVrIidz\?\= message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:19:18 +0100") Message-ID: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21974 Cc: 21974@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek skribis: > The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on > the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail > if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?). =E2=80=98makeinfo=E2=80=99 is necessary when building from a checkout or ot= herwise modifying the manual, but it=E2=80=99s not necessary when building from a tarball. See . Can you confirm you were building from a checkout? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Nov 21 15:48:14 2015 Received: (at 21974) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Nov 2015 20:48:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47355 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0F4v-0000Qu-Sa for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:48:14 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:35181) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0F4t-0000Qm-6J for 21974@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:48:11 -0500 Received: by wmuu63 with SMTP id u63so13436650wmu.0 for <21974@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:48:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3tBE87JqMnO3X1iRpYS6Gpwh0w48jaG0IW4EOXeZhSc=; b=QUaAbm+ELFtBqYGTCur15/nEOlXhRy4rkZv2qBoqmjZcBk99uriSfEmzBjANhDsHkg wYZgCeV0+WMkdvenMvcMaAti9CEKlB8RJFYIRnnm2x0O1knmX9xaaC8vsXwYVhvBujC/ nqrdPyt3UGGM05ly2m0UvOz+jrAa0FQFLIeqbRiNLo7BLicgSbsXjl4UNM7vBB+KFktg Fusvfa1rwYclUp8BgspJobi6k3KbyirjNtkAxvhZSUXy0bS36EqJL6Nd41sxMuKkYBiy JkWwUPqn+vQxleO03Ve48uawfpMI1KyQ0m3xea5s2TVtgn1OnX4PfrB4tuzfmPGxjgKd RHzQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.28.213.12 with SMTP id m12mr10709541wmg.26.1448138890438; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.27.155.66 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:48:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:48:10 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIFN5bsOhxI1law==?= To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21974 Cc: 21974@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek skribis: > >> The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on >> the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail >> if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?). > > =E2=80=98makeinfo=E2=80=99 is necessary when building from a checkout or = otherwise > modifying the manual, but it=E2=80=99s not necessary when building from a > tarball. See > . > > Can you confirm you were building from a checkout? Yes, I was building from a checkout. Maybe it would make sense to make it optional, as 'help2man' is? I was only trying to test the latest version of guix and wasn't really interested in the documentation changes. --=20 Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Nov 22 05:32:00 2015 Received: (at 21974-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Nov 2015 10:32:00 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47632 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Rw7-0001DT-Op for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 05:32:00 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40062) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Rw6-0001DL-6a for 21974-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 05:31:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Rw2-0002qO-1R for 21974-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 05:31:57 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Rw1-0002qK-U5; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 05:31:53 -0500 Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]:60092 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a0Rw1-0004cC-BP; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 05:31:53 -0500 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Jan =?utf-8?B?U3luw6HEjWVr?= Subject: Re: bug#21974: can't build guix without 'makeinfo' References: <877flb5bnb.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 2 Frimaire an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:31:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?B\?U3luw6HEjWVrIidz\?\= message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:48:10 +0100") Message-ID: <87vb8u2ulk.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21974-done Cc: 21974-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek skribis: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: >> Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek skribis: >> >>> The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on >>> the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail >>> if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?). >> >> =E2=80=98makeinfo=E2=80=99 is necessary when building from a checkout or= otherwise >> modifying the manual, but it=E2=80=99s not necessary when building from a >> tarball. See >> . >> >> Can you confirm you were building from a checkout? > > Yes, I was building from a checkout. OK. > Maybe it would make sense to make it optional, as 'help2man' is? I was > only trying to test the latest version of guix and wasn't really > interested in the documentation changes. I think it cannot be made more optional than it currently is. =E2=80=98MAKEINFO=E2=80=99 is currently defined as: MAKEINFO =3D ${SHELL} =E2=80=A6/build-aux/missing makeinfo meaning that you get a warning when =E2=80=98makeinfo=E2=80=99 is missing. Regardless, I would recommend the following to set up a development environment for Guix: guix environment guix I realize this wasn=E2=80=99t documented, so I=E2=80=99ve added it to =E2= =80=9CBuilding from Git.=E2=80=9D Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. From unknown Mon Jun 23 13:09:02 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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