Hello, Le sam. 7 mars 2020 à 17:04, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> a écrit : > > Hello, > > Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabr...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > guile fails to build without makeinfo: > > > > make[4]: Entering directory > > '/nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/doc/ref' > > MAKEINFO guile.info > > /nvmedata/autobuild/instance-7/output-1/build/host-guile-2.0.14/build-aux/missing: > > line 81: makeinfo: command not found > > AFAIK, ‘makeinfo’ is needed if and only if one modifies the .texi files, > or perhaps the ‘configure’ file. > > Could it be what happened here? Yes, this build failure is raised by one of our buidlroot autobuilders. We're running autoreconf as we have a patch that updates configure.ac: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/guile/0002-calculate-csqrt_manually.patch. If your interested in applying this patch upstream, I can send it to the mailing list. > > BTW, 2.0 is an old series that is no longer maintained (the current > stable series is 3.0, and the previous one is 2.2). Our current version of guile is indeed pretty old, one of our users sent a patch to bump it to 3.0: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1246994. However, I assume that this build failure won't be fixed in 3.0 as we'll still have to update configure.ac.
So, in the end, I saw that HAVE_MAKEINFO was added quite a while ago (in 2001): http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=a9d78896d1737c429ca8640d5e2fe0814a2ea20c However, this variable was never used so it seemed right to me to use it to fix this build failure > > Thanks, > Ludo’. Best Regards, Fabrice
