Re: Makeinfo version parsing broken?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:36:54AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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?
>
The GFDL instead is not considered non-free, but the GFDL *with*
invariant sections is considered non-free.
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