Re: Makeinfo version parsing broken?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I'm a debian-hppa porter, and I was building the most recent libc6
> from unstable when I noticed:
>
> ~~~
> configure: WARNING:
> *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: makeinfo
> *** some features will be disabled.
> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
> ~~~
>
> During glibc's configure. The installed makefino is 4.13 (part of
> texinfo), and that should meet glibc requirements. I don't see this
> warning when doing native glibc build (I'm also the upstream hppa
> ports maintainer).
>
> Has anyone already looked into this?
>
This is actually "normal". The build of info files is disabled in the
main glibc code, as this documentation is considered non-free. It is
packaged instead in glibc-doc-reference in the non-free section.
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