On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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 >>>> ... >>> Documentation is already "built" in distributed releases so unless you >>> are modifying the ".texi" sources, 'makeinfo' shouldn't be required by >>> the build process. >> >> 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 Most of the software is out of date.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 > > Indeed the 'autoreconf' step might be the issue. When building from a > release tarball the build/install process should only be "./configure && > make && make install". See the INSTALL file for more detailed > information.
This worked well. It was run after configure. sed -e 's|^MAKEINFO =*|MAKEINFO = true|g' Makefile > Makefile.fixed mv Makefile.fixed Makefile Jeff
