On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm trying to update Autoconf and Automake on an old CentOS system. >> The build is failing with: >> >> MAKEINFO doc/automake.info >> /home/scripts/automake-1.15.1/lib/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not >> found >> ... >> >> What is the feature name of the documentation so I can disable it? >> >> (It also seems like a bad idea to fail a build for a feature I don't >> want. Maybe it would be more prudent to print a warning message >> instead of failing the primary task). > > Documentation is not considered as a "feature" in that sense. > > Documentation is already "built" in distributed releases so unless you > are modifying the ".texi" sources, 'makeinfo' shouldn't be required by > the build process.
Thanks Mathieu. Maybe autoreconf is doing it. I need to use it on a lot of older systems, like CentOS 5 or my PowerMac G5. I use the old iron for testing. Most of the software is out of date. > Are you build from a tarball or the Git development repository? I'm using the latest release tarball. It is https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.15.1.tar.gz Jeff
