Re: Makeinfo version parsing broken?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Aurelien Jarno<aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, but now I'm curious, why is the GFDL licensed documentation
considered non-free?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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