Subject: bug#52322: `make --question info` always fails

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:23:20 -0800

close 52322 28.1
thanks

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Perhaps just get rid of the --question test.
>
> Fine by me.  AFAICT, we will run "make info" anyways.
>
> Any other comments?

There have been no further comments within over a week, so I've
installed the attached patch on the emacs-28 branch (commit 9de8eec3bc).
From 9de8eec3bc9be2f6e7debf26159c1761c47df909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 03:08:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * make-dist: Don't run "make --question info".  (Bug#52322)

---
 make-dist | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/make-dist b/make-dist
index b069130ca6..db7a74b82b 100755
--- a/make-dist
+++ b/make-dist
@@ -299,13 +299,6 @@ tempparent=
     echo "${bogosities}"
   fi
 
-  ## This exits with non-zero status if any .info files need
-  ## rebuilding.
-  if [ -r Makefile ] && [ "$with_info" = "yes" ]; then
-      echo "Checking to see if info files are up-to-date..."
-      make --question info || error=yes
-  fi
-
   ## Is this a release?
   case $version in
       [1-9][0-9].[0-9])
-- 
2.30.2