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Guile fails to build without makeinfo

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39974: Guile fails to build without makeinfo
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:40:34 +0100

Hi,

Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice <at> gmail.com> 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?
> Yes, this build failure is raised by one of our buidlroot autobuilders.
> We're running autoreconf as we have a patch that updates configure.ac:

OK.  From Guile’s perspective, it’s not a bug that ‘makeinfo’ is needed
in this case.

> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/guile/0002-calculate-csqrt_manually.patch.
> If your interested in applying this patch upstream, I can send it to
> the mailing list.

I don’t think we would apply the patch because it’s uClibc-specific,
AIUI.

However, instead of patching ‘configure.ac’, you can run:

  ./configure guile_cv_use_csqrt=no

to achieve the same effect as the patch.

Let me know if it works for you!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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