Can we build Maxima without needing makeinfo?

On 02/15/11 07:39 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On 2/15/11 1:15 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> 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.
> I think you can just cd to src and then run "make ecl".  This will just
> make maxima with ecl.  No attempt will be made to build the info files
> or anything else.
>
> Ray

Thank you.

This seems like a bug, since the .info files are in the source tree.

I "touched" the info file to ensure the time stamps are later than the files 
they are generated from, and still the problem persists.

I would like to install maxima too, but no doubt if I type "make install" it 
will start trying to create the .info files again. So it's hard to know exactly 
what to do.


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