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

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Message #26 received at 29731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
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 15:40:31 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

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

Aha.  Hm.  Oh, Glenn had renamed this to:

retitle 29731 configure to distinguish makeinfo present-but-broken from missing-or-old

Which is, I guess, the correct description here.  So makeinfo didn't
work for the user because Perl was b0rked, but ./configure says that the
user didn't have makeinfo.

I guess that should be possible to distinguish...

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