On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Aurelien Jarno<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> I'm a debian-hppa porter, and I was building the most recent libc6 >> from unstable when I noticed: >> >> ~~~ >> configure: WARNING: >> *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: makeinfo >> *** some features will be disabled. >> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. >> ~~~ >> >> During glibc's configure. The installed makefino is 4.13 (part of >> texinfo), and that should meet glibc requirements. I don't see this >> warning when doing native glibc build (I'm also the upstream hppa >> ports maintainer). >> >> Has anyone already looked into this? >> > > This is actually "normal". The build of info files is disabled in the > main glibc code, as this documentation is considered non-free. It is > packaged instead in glibc-doc-reference in the non-free section.
Thanks, but now I'm curious, why is the GFDL licensed documentation considered non-free? Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
