Hi Christoph,
I wanted to update the openSuse package for Automake to 1.18. But I get
an error that makeinfo is not found. Past releases did no require
makeinfo. Is this an oversight?
Argh. Certainly makeinfo is not supposed to be required.
But when I unpack it and run configure and make, it isn't run.
$ tar xf automake-1.18.tar.xz
$ cd automake-1.18
$ ./configure
$ make
... no use of MAKEINFO ...
$
And in the tarball the .info files look to be up to date wrt to the .texi:
$ tar tvf automake-1.18.tar.xz | egrep '\.(texi|info)'
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 89 2025-05-25 10:40 automake-1.18/doc/version.texi
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 23416 2025-01-12 08:30 automake-1.18/doc/fdl.texi
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 551131 2025-05-25 10:33 automake-1.18/doc/automake.texi
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 52727 2025-01-12 08:30
automake-1.18/doc/automake-history.texi
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 8169 2025-05-25 10:46 automake-1.18/doc/automake.info
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 308720 2025-05-25 10:46
automake-1.18/doc/automake.info-1
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 363089 2025-05-25 10:46
automake-1.18/doc/automake.info-2
-rw-rw-r-- karl/root 79492 2025-01-30 15:39
automake-1.18/doc/automake-history.info
So ... I'm not sure. Do you have SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set to something newer?
Best,
Karl
