Re: Makeinfo required to build Automake 1.18

On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 11:02 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 08:59:08AM +0200, Christoph Grüninger via
> Discussion list for automake wrote:
> > Note, that the issue arises when `make install` is called. I
> > attached the output of the call in verbose mode (V=1). I still
> > cannot spot an issue.
> 
> Like others, I cannot reproduce any makeinfo-related failure on an
> AlmaLinux 8.4 installation which lacks makeinfo.
> 
> I suggest you try running GNU make with the '-d' option which will
> cause it print out all the gory details about why it decided to run
> any particular rule.

You can also use the "make --trace" option which provides significantly
less gore in the output, but still should show the critical decisions
and why they were taken.

Just to be clear, it's almost 100% sure that for some reason the .info
files are older than the .texi file, and so make thinks they need to be
rebuilt.

Multiple people have confirmed that the timestamps in the tar file
itself are correct, so that means that somehow either during the unpack
of the tar file or after that but before you invoked make, the
timestamps are being changed.  For example, you run tar with the -m /
--touch option, or something like that.