Re: Makeinfo required to build Automake 1.18

Karl Berry <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Jun 2025 15:10:09 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Gavin,

    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-05/msg00000.html

    I wrote at the time (in a private email):
    > Yes, I am still opposed.  I believe it is wrong to include it in the
    > distribution as it can delete or overwrite files from the distribution,
    > with no way to get them back, unlike Makefile rules (e.g. "make distclean").

Thanks much. That is convincing to me. I'll plan to remove bootstrap
from EXTRA_DIST for the next release, barring opposite arguments ... -k