Re: [Groff] Failed to compile CVS

[Mark Veltzer]

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On Friday 23 August 2002 03:30, you wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 03:29:23AM +0300, Mark Veltzer wrote:
> > On Friday 23 August 2002 03:16, you wrote:
> > > You need at least texinfo 4.2 to build the texinfo files in groff 1.18.
> > > @copying is a new command.
> >
> > Ok. Shouldn't this be added to the configure checks ? (this way this list
> > won't get annoying emails like mine...:)
>
> Probably ought to be a warning at best. The source distributions Werner
> builds (using 'make dist', I assume) include pre-built info files, so
> you only need texinfo at all when checking out the source from CVS.

A warning sounds good to me. Also adding some documentation about it in some 
REQUIREMENTS file or something (or INSTALL file) will be helpful. I really 
didn't want to contact the list regarding this problem so I grepped the 
entire distribtuion for texinfo and makeinfo but found no documentation about 
the version needed).

Mark
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