On Wednesday 15 August 2007 06:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Finally, I've compile autoconf (cvs). Remark that the documentation > > fails on mingw. If you want the error, I can paste it somewhere. > > I think it's merely due to the old texinfo version that comes with > MinGW.
That seems likely. Groff has a similar problem, requiring a makeinfo version >= 4.8, while MSYS currently provides only 4.3. FWIW, I've just successfully used MinGW to build the makeinfo component from texinfo-4.9, and used it to build texinfo's own documentation set; it required only a trivial patch in two source files, to deal with the disparity between Microsnot's _mkdir() function, and POSIX's mkdir(). However, the remainder of the texinfo-4.9 package is a much more daunting proposition, with info itself requiring termcap/terminfo capabilities which are not readily supported in Woe32 consoles. I'll try to create a mingwPORT for makeinfo-4.9, and post it on the MinGW download site, this weekend. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
