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configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Mutiny  <mutiny.mutiny <at> rediffmail.com>, 29731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29731: configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken
 from missing-or-old
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:31:10 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:58 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> "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.

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

    Lars> Anybody know?

No. Some of the admin scripts do, but theyʼre not required to build
emacs. makeinfo requires perl last time I checked.

Robert
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