On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Daniel Schepler wrote:

> Source: m4
> Version: 1.4.17-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> For the purposes of bootstrapping, it would be nice to be able to
> build m4 without texinfo installed, as m4 is much easier to bootstrap
> than texinfo is.  The attached patch implements this.
> 
> (Note that there's also a dependency cycle that m4 Build-Depends on
> libsigsegv-dev, which Build-Depends on autoconf, which Depends on m4.
> But the autoconf script seems to handle building without libsigsegv
> automatically with no further changes needed.)

Makes sense. Thanks a lot, will be applied in the next upload.


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