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List:       glibc-alpha
Subject:    Re: [patch] skip libm texi generation if perl is not installed
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-02-23 18:42:10
Message-ID: 200602231342.10613.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:00, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [2006-02-22 21:12]:
> > is the attached patch acceptable ?  this disables the install target if
> > perl is not available; same as if makeinfo is not available (libc.info
> > cannot be
>
> I think that's pretty broken.  It shouldn't behave differently (in a
> silent way) just because Perl is not installed.

the samething happens if `info` is not installed ... if the perl change i 
suggested is incorrect, then so is the makeinfo check imho ...

> I think what Roland suggested was to add a proper option to ./configure
> (--disable-docs or something like that).

that's fine by me ... if that's the preferred method, i can do that as well
-mike
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