GNU bug report logs - #39974
Guile fails to build without makeinfo

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 13:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 39974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39974: Guile fails to build without makeinfo
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:04:51 +0100
Hello,

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?

BTW, 2.0 is an old series that is no longer maintained (the current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’.




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