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the last thing I want is people deliberately making doc-less installations, or (perhaps worse) installations with out-of-date docs.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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

Andrew> Ok, I understand why you oppose "--makeinfo=no" but Andrew> shouldn't configure at least tell you there is a Andrew> dependency? It can then treat makeinfo missing as a fatal Andrew> error and report it gracefully. OK, that's reasonable. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.