Re: Makeinfo required to build Automake 1.18

2025-05-31 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM Karl Berry wrote: > Or, wait, let's back up. Why is bootstrap in the tarball in the first > place? Does every package distribute it? No, I see it's not in the GNU > make or autoconf tarballs. So I guess automake should not include it > either? I can't find any reco

Re: Makeinfo required to build Automake 1.18

2025-05-31 Thread Karl Berry
ps> I am not familiar with automake's development model, but in general for all GNU packages, at least: It's the same for Automake. (Not that I wrote any of Automake's bootstrap script -- I don't believe it's changed in many years.) Cf> running ./bootstrap (or autoreconf -fvi manually