Re: [VM] gmake failure

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

Michael <address@hidden> writes:

> Woke early so had a bit of free time to install gmake (thanks Mark Diekhans) 
> and try to install vm.
> Now, with gmake, I get this:
> In end of data:
> u-vm-color.el:759:1:Warning: the function `vm-restore-buffer-modified-p' might
>     not be defined at runtime.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/mike/Programs/vm-8.2.0b/lisp'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory '/usr/home/mike/Programs/vm-8.2.0b/info'
> echo @set VERSION 8.2.0b > version.texinfo
> makeinfo  vm.texinfo -o vm.info
> vm.texinfo:917: warning: @end should only appear at a line beginning
> vm.texinfo:2817: warning: superfluous arguments for node
> vm.texinfo:1210: @ref reference to nonexistent node `maildrop
>   specification'
> vm.texinfo:2871: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsubsec which is 
> too low
> vm.texinfo:3428: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsec which is too 
> low
> vm.texinfo:5177: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsec which is too 
> low
> vm.texinfo:6024: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsubsec which is 
> too low
> vm.texinfo:6072: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsubsec which is 
> too low
> vm.texinfo:6182: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsec which is too 
> low
> vm.texinfo:6548: raising the section level of @unnumberedsubsubsec which is 
> too low
> gmake[1]: *** [<builtin>: vm.info] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/mike/Programs/vm-8.2.0b/info'
> gmake: *** [Makefile:37: all] Error 1
>
>
> Now what do I do? I see it mentions maildrop, but that is also installed.
>
> Sorry for all the problems and thanks for all the help.

Building the documentation fails with recent versions of
texinfo/makeinfo (6.x)... even on GNU/Linux and MacOS X. It works with
the version (4.8) that ships with Mac OS X.

Workaround: edit the Makefile and remove info from SUBDIRS.

--
Herbert