DOCBOOK2X_TEXI in Documentation/Makefile invalid on some distributions

2014-10-09 Thread Derek Moore
Following the INSTALL doc, I was building git with: make prefix=/usr/local all doc info Even after installing docbook2X, I couldn't get past the first DB2TEXI build step until I discovered that 'docbook2x-texi' is named 'db2x_docbook2texi' in Fedora 21 using the latest upstream docbook2X 0.8.8.

Re: DOCBOOK2X_TEXI in Documentation/Makefile invalid on some distributions

2014-10-09 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 12:53:33PM -0500, Derek Moore wrote: Following the INSTALL doc, I was building git with: make prefix=/usr/local all doc info I wonder if it is actually sane to recommend building info for newcomers in INSTALL. I do not know if many of the list regulars do so (I

Re: DOCBOOK2X_TEXI in Documentation/Makefile invalid on some distributions

2014-10-09 Thread Derek Moore
:) Wasn't proposing a patch, that's for sure, was just evincing the change that worked for me. I agree INSTALL instructions should be fixed up and/or the DOCBOOK2X_TEXI should be conditionally assigned in a sane manner. I'd first want to inspect upstream docbook2X build process and Fedora