Re: Build time requirements.
Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:50:07 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs |
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"Allen Suski" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have noticed that source requires the texinfo package (actually makeinfo) > in order to successfully compile and install. > > Identifying this in the build time dependencies may save some others > frustration when starting from a fresh HP-UX 11.11 install. Are you using HP's make program? It's had a bug that makes it look like makeinfo is required, when in fact the file mod-times and dependencies indicate that it is *not* required. If you use GNU make, you'll find that makeinfo is not required.