[PATCH] manual: skip build when perl is unavailable

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:50:29PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 08/21/2015 07:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Do not try to generate the manual when perl is unavailable.  This
> > matches the behavior when makeinfo is unavailable.  Otherwise the
> > install step fails when trying to generate the libm section since
> > it runs a perl script.
> 
> Isn't this redundant with the makeinfo check because makeinfo is written
> in Perl?

Not so long ago makeinfo used to be an ELF executable.


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