Subject: Can we build Maxima without needing makeinfo?
From: Dr. David Kirkby
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:05:11 +0000
On 02/16/11 01:28 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Speaking for just for me, I think that Sage is already a huge
> agglomeration of "stuff"that making one more small additional
> requirement of having makeinfo available is not too onerous.
We don't want to add extra stuff if we can, but in this case it seems to be
unnecessary.
We can get around the problem with the following.
./configure --prefix="$SAGE_LOCAL" --enable-ecl
# Touching html and info file to avoid to regenerate them.
# This must be done after configuration since the timestamp need
# to be later than include-maxima.texi which is generated at
# configuration time
for i in doc/info/*.html ; do
touch "${i}"
done
touch doc/info/maxima.info*
make
Now we don't need makeinfo.
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