Can we build Maxima without needing makeinfo?

On 02/15/11 05:01 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Here are a couple of ideas.
> One is to build Maxima from a tar.gz as provided on
> the SF file manager.
> Tarballs are built via make dist-gzip and they contain
> the generated .info files so makeinfo isn't needed afterwards.

That's basically what is done. The file was downloaded from sourceforge:

drkirkby at hawk:~$ digest -a md5 maxima-5.23.2.tar.gz
ae2f2eaca33de95636e36652ed281902

then configured with

./configure --prefix="$SAGE_LOCAL" --enable-ecl

But I'm told by someone else that it failed since he did not have makeinfo.

Have I mis-understood you?

> Another idea is to build Maxima via the Lisp-only build
> procedure, which doesn't build the .info files.

I'd rather avoid that as I don't understand that.


> Just some ideas. Hope this helps.
> Robert Dodier

Thank you Robert, but I'm still lost.

Dave

> On 2/15/11, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net>  wrote:
>> Maxima is used in Sage, but texinfo is not a requirement for building Sage.
>> As
>> such, it has been reported that the Maxima failed to build on a system where
>> makeinfo (part http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/) of was not installed.
>>
>> It is possible to build Maxima without requiring the texinfo package to be
>> installed? If so how.
>>
>> --
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>> Dave
>>
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-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Dave