[PATCH 1/1] Texinfo is needed by bootstrap

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Thu Mar 3 08:23:45 UTC 2011


Mike Orazi wrote:
> diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
> index ec9b141..7c63dfe 100644
> --- a/README-prereq
> +++ b/README-prereq
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ I.E. the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and include:
>  - Gzip      <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
>  - Rsync     <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
>  - Tar       <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
> +- Texinfo   <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>
>  Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
>  If these programs are not available use the following instructions

Thanks for reporting that, Mike.
Actually, while bootstrap.conf lists makeinfo (for which the texinfo
package would be required), this package does not use it, so I've simply
removed the dependency:

>From ea4909cd24abe02ab24eaf0650904e220e0fc7bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:18:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: do not require texinfo, since we don't use makeinfo

* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Don't require texinfo.
Reported by Mike Orazi.
---
 bootstrap.conf |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index eb7ab94..cf1da8b 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ bison      -
 gettext    -
 git        1.4.4
 gzip       -
-makeinfo   -
 rsync      -
 tar        -
 "
--
1.7.4.1.21.g4cc62


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