On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jan Synáček <jan.syna...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> The build fails with an error if the 'makeinfo' binary is missing on >> the system. The configure script should check for 'makeinfo' and fail >> if not found (or maybe warn that the docs won't be built?). > > ‘makeinfo’ is necessary when building from a checkout or otherwise > modifying the manual, but it’s not necessary when building from a > tarball. See > <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-from-Git.html>. > > Can you confirm you were building from a checkout?
Yes, I was building from a checkout. Maybe it would make sense to make it optional, as 'help2man' is? I was only trying to test the latest version of guix and wasn't really interested in the documentation changes. -- Jan Synáček