Follow-up Comment #2, bug #66583 (group groff): I actually have a patch locally that adds a flag --disable-info-doc, created in response to Alejandro Colomar being unable to build groff due to a failure to build the Texinfo manual. (He had a current makeinfo installed, but it failed to build the manual.)
I felt like this shouldn't be added without being able to disable building the
entire documentation, though, and that's a much more involved thing to do
because the doc/ Automake rules also handle the creation of gnu.eps (an image
of gnu) which is also being used by tests. There is a bunch of code
accompanying it that modifies lists of files to be installed, the logic behind
which is unclear to me (both as in "why it's there" and as in "understanding
how it works"). If someone can decouple the building of gnu.eps from stuff
related to its use in documentation, adding a --disable-doc flag would be much
easier. I think that file shouldn't be part of doc/ when it's used by tests
anyway.
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