GNU bug report logs - #78778
Build failure with the NS-port

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:08:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>

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From: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:06:29 +0200

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Building emacs stops and ends with the lines

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
  GEN      ../../info/elisp.info
make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info] Error 1
make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2

even though elisp.info does exist.


Konrad Podczeck
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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:14:52 +0200

Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> writes:

> Building emacs stops and ends with the lines
>
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
>   GEN      ../../info/elisp.info
> make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info] Error 1
> make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2
>
> even though elisp.info does exist.

In the same shell, what do you get when you do:

  $ which makeinfo

?  Best, Arash
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From: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:35:53 +0200

I get:

makeinfo not found

Thanks for your reply,

best Konrad

> Am 13.06.2025 um 11:14 schrieb Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> writes:
> 
>> Building emacs stops and ends with the lines
>> 
>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
>>  GEN      ../../info/elisp.info
>> make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info] Error 1
>> make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2
>> 
>> even though elisp.info does exist.
> 
> In the same shell, what do you get when you do:
> 
>  $ which makeinfo
> 
> ?  Best, Arash
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Message #14 received at 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
Cc: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>, 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:22:20 +0200

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If you're using homebrew, try "brew install texinfo"

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM Konrad Podczeck <
konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I get:
>
> makeinfo not found
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> best Konrad
>
> > Am 13.06.2025 um 11:14 schrieb Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>:
> >
> > Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> writes:
> >
> >> Building emacs stops and ends with the lines
> >>
> >> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
> >>  GEN      ../../info/elisp.info
> >> make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
> >> make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info] Error 1
> >> make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2
> >>
> >> even though elisp.info does exist.
> >
> > In the same shell, what do you get when you do:
> >
> >  $ which makeinfo
> >
> > ?  Best, Arash
>
>
>
>
>

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Message #17 received at 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:50:22 +0300

> From: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:06:29 +0200
> 
> Building emacs stops and ends with the lines
> 
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
> 
>   GEN      ../../info/elisp.info
> 
> make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
> 
> make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info] Error 1
> 
> make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2
> 
> even though elisp.info does exist.

Are you building the Emacs 30.1 release tarball?  If so, this is a
known problem in the release.  To work around, do

  $ touch info/elisp.info

and then repeat the build.
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From: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
To: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>, 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:11:49 +0200

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This did the job! Thanks, Konrad

> Am 13.06.2025 um 12:22 schrieb Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>:
> 
> If you're using homebrew, try "brew install texinfo"
> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at <mailto:konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>> I get:
>> 
>> makeinfo not found
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply,
>> 
>> best Konrad
>> 
>> > Am 13.06.2025 um 11:14 schrieb Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org <mailto:arash <at> gnu.org>>:
>> > 
>> > Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at <mailto:konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>> writes:
>> > 
>> >> Building emacs stops and ends with the lines
>> >> 
>> >> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc/lispref info
>> >>  GEN      ../../info/elisp.info <http://elisp.info/>
>> >> make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory
>> >> make[1]: *** [../../info/elisp.info <http://elisp.info/>] Error 1
>> >> make: *** [lispref-info] Error 2
>> >> 
>> >> even though elisp.info <http://elisp.info/> does exist.
>> > 
>> > In the same shell, what do you get when you do:
>> > 
>> >  $ which makeinfo
>> > 
>> > ?  Best, Arash
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 


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Message #23 received at 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at>
Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:16:49 +0200

tags 78778 notabug
close 78778
thanks

Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> writes:

> This did the job! Thanks, Konrad

I presume the issue is fixed by installing texinfo.  Therefore I'm
closing this report.

Best, Arash
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:18:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> Request was from Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:18:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at, shipmints <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#78778: Build failure with the NS-port
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:37:37 +0300

> Cc: 78778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:16:49 +0200
> 
> tags 78778 notabug
> close 78778
> thanks
> 
> Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > This did the job! Thanks, Konrad
> 
> I presume the issue is fixed by installing texinfo.  Therefore I'm
> closing this report.

Actually, there should be no need to have Texinfo to build a release
tarball.  In this case, there was a single mistake in creating the
release tarball, which seemed to require that (which was a false
positive, since elisp.info was in the tarball).

Hopefully, this mistake will not happen in the future.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:24:33 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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