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Re: [PATCH] manual: skip build when perl is unavailable
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:27:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: skip build when perl is unavailable
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> On 21 Aug 2015 21:58, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:50:29PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> > On 08/21/2015 07:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > > Do not try to generate the manual when perl is unavailable. This
>> > > matches the behavior when makeinfo is unavailable. Otherwise the
>> > > install step fails when trying to generate the libm section since
>> > > it runs a perl script.
>> >
>> > Isn't this redundant with the makeinfo check because makeinfo is written
>> > in Perl?
>>
>> Not so long ago makeinfo used to be an ELF executable.
>
> right -- the perl rewrite is new to the latest versions (5.0+), and the
> configure script doesn't require those. so an alternative would be to
> stop accepting makeinfo 4.x.
Until makeinfo is rewritten again...
Andreas.
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