[patch] skip libm texi generation if perl is not installed
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Feb 23 18:41:00 GMT 2006
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
More information about the Libc-alpha
mailing list