These issues are addressed in README-hacking. Briefly, if you are building from CVS, you are assumed to be a hacker who has all the tools. If you build from a tarball, you don't need Flex or Texinfo.
- Configure does not check for Flex and Texinfo (cvs head) Sebastian Pipping
- Re: Configure does not check for Flex and Texinfo (... Paul Eggert
- Re: Configure does not check for Flex and Texin... Sebastian Pipping
- Re: Configure does not check for Flex and T... Paul Eggert
- Re: Configure does not check for Flex a... Claudio Saavedra
- Re: Configure does not check for F... Sebastian Pipping
- Re: Configure does not check f... Paul Eggert
- Re: Configure does not che... Paul Eggert
- Re: Configure does not che... Sebastian Pipping
