Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 Most of the software is out of date.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
OK. Can you confirm that the following commands works on your system without requiring 'makeinfo'? $ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.15.1.tar.gz $ tar xzf automake-1.15.1.tar.gz $ cd automake-1.15.1 $ ./configure $ make Otherwise it is a bug. Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
