Subject: Re: bug#39974: Guile fails to build without makeinfo

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:04:51 +0100

Hello,

Fabrice Fontaine <[email-masked]> skribis:

> guile fails to build without makeinfo:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory
> '/nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/doc/ref'
>   MAKEINFO guile.info
> /nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/build-aux/missing:
> line 81: makeinfo: command not found

AFAIK, ‘makeinfo’ is needed if and only if one modifies the .texi files,
or perhaps the ‘configure’ file.

Could it be what happened here?

BTW, 2.0 is an old series that is no longer maintained (the current
stable series is 3.0, and the previous one is 2.2).

Thanks,
Ludo’.