GNU bug report logs - #29731
configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Mutiny " <mutiny.mutiny <at> rediffmail.com>

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 08:27:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Mutiny " <mutiny.mutiny <at> rediffmail.com>
Cc: 29731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200

"Mutiny " <mutiny.mutiny <at> rediffmail.com> writes:

> I did some deep testing and found out that following perl(sic) modules were
> missing:
> (excerpt from my setup perl modules script)
>
> cpan install Locale::Messages # emacs build
> cpan install Text::Unidecode # emacs build
> cpan install Unicode::EastAsianWidth # emacs build
>
> Thereafter ./configure and make&&make install working.

Does the Emacs build use Perl?  I looked through configure and Makefile
and didn't see any Perl mentions.

Anybody know?

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