On 12/20/25 10:10 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 07:49:30AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
While trying to build texinfo in a Docker image, I found out that the Docker
image didn't have gettext, gperf, or gawk installed. Took me a while to
figure out why texinfo wasn't building.
AFAICT, these are required to build texinfo. Or at least I couldn't find any
obvious configure option so that these aren't needed.
Should configure check that at least these programs exist? (Now, I have to
go figure out how to get the Docker image to include these packages.)
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It's the usual story that these tools shouldn't be required when building
from a tarball distribution, but they may be required when building from
a git repository. This is noted in the top-level "README-hacking" file:
Oh, I didn't know a tarball didn't need these. I never build from a tarball.
This makes sense, then.
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