>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Marlow
<apm35(a)student.open.ac.uk> writes:
Andrew> I note that the build of xemacs-21.4.12 depends on
Andrew> makeinfo. If makeinfo is absent this prevents xemacs from
Andrew> building and installing cleanly.
Have you unpacked xemacs-21.4.12-info.tar.gz into your source
distribution? That _should_ stop complaints from Make. Doesn't it?
Andrew> be an option on the configure script so when it checks for
Andrew> makeinfo a missing makeinfo is fatal by default but can be
Andrew> ignored via a suitable command line option (e.g
Andrew> --makeinfo=no) ? Please consider this as an enhancement
Andrew> request.
As a maintainer, the last thing I want is people deliberately making
doc-less installations, or (perhaps worse) installations with
out-of-date docs. I would tend to oppose a change of this nature.
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