On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:36:54AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Aurelien Jarno<aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > >> I'm a debian-hppa porter, and I was building the most recent libc6 > >> from unstable when I noticed: > >> > >> ~~~ > >> configure: WARNING: > >> *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: makeinfo > >> *** some features will be disabled. > >> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. > >> ~~~ > >> > >> During glibc's configure. The installed makefino is 4.13 (part of > >> texinfo), and that should meet glibc requirements. I don't see this > >> warning when doing native glibc build (I'm also the upstream hppa > >> ports maintainer). > >> > >> Has anyone already looked into this? > >> > > > > This is actually "normal". The build of info files is disabled in the > > main glibc code, as this documentation is considered non-free. It is > > packaged instead in glibc-doc-reference in the non-free section. > > Thanks, but now I'm curious, why is the GFDL licensed documentation > considered non-free? >
The GFDL instead is not considered non-free, but the GFDL *with* invariant sections is considered non-free. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
