Re: [Maxima-discuss] Texinfo version and building packages, was: Help paths (was: Re: Maxima help can use browser now)

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 9:28 AM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:37 PM Wolfgang Dautermann
> <wol...@da...> wrote:
>
> > The nightly Windows installers are build on Ubuntu 20.04, where makeinfo
> > 6.7 is the default version.
> >
> > I assume, that 20.04 is still widely used (it is supported until 2025!),
> > so *requiring* texinfo 6.8 for Maxima now is maybe too early?
>
> For building from tarballs, at least, one can say ./configure
> --disable-build-docs so that make is not executed in doc/info, so you
> just get whatever was packed into the tarball.
>
> I guess that's okay for building release bundles. I guess it doesn't
> help builds from Git.
>

Does that mean releases won't have docs?  That doesn't seem good.

>
> FWIW
>
> Robert
>
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Ray