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Re: Makeinfo question
- To: "Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life dot uiuc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Makeinfo question
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 08 Jan 2000 14:48:23 +0100
- Cc: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- References: <200001080447.XAA06391@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu> <v04210100b49c762a3c20@[130.126.50.226]>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
>>>>> Igor S Livshits writes:
> Hello,
> I am trying to configure glibc-2.1.2 on my Linux 2.2.13 box. I
> installed texinfo-4.0 to provide makeinfo support for the glibc
> build, but the configure script does not like it -- it wants version
> 3.1.x, it seems. I cannot find version 3.1.x anymore.
> Why is it that version 4.0 does not suffice? And, is there a place I
> may grab the earlier release?
4.0 is ok, just the configure test fails since a last minute change to
texinfo which we couldn't incorporate into glibc.
Just ignore it - or wait for glibc 2.1.3. glibc will build without
texinfo. An alternative is to fix the configure rule.
Andreas
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