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info_TEXINFOS cannot be set conditionally?

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Message #17 received at 25361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> justemail.net>
To: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker <at> t-online.de>
Cc: 25361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25361: info_TEXINFOS cannot be set conditionally?
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:09:54 +0100

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017, at 17:27, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> People using git sources can and should be expected to have more
> complete tool chests than others, and makeinfo is well within the bounds
> of what constitutes a reasonable tool collection for anyone wanting to
> build GNU software from sources.

True.

> > So, if nano.info and nano.html are already there, install them, but
> > if they are not and 'makeinfo' is absent, don't even /try/ to build
> > them. I don't see how I can achieve that.
> 
> You shouldn't.  Pretending the build, much less install, was successful
> despite such a lack of documentation is just a bad idea.

Okay.

Benno

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