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| author | Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org> | 2020-12-01 17:32:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org> | 2020-12-01 18:53:22 +0000 |
| commit | 1ee1d66e9b2bbcd8d957b7e6854bd930fa53db46 (patch) | |
| tree | cdc41c6ba8b4d30191f9c9f8fdcfbbfe86f50d4a /.dir-locals.el | |
| parent | e796e6f401d6d7249aa6165e62354bcada3f732a (diff) | |
Installation: m4 no longer depends on Texinfo
In a recent build on a macOS, we recognized that Texinfo needs the
'libintl.h' headers of Gettext. However, Gettext depends on M4, and until
now we had set M4 to depend on Texinfo. Therefore adding Gettext as a
dependency of Texinfo would cause a circular dependency.
On the macOS, we temporarily disabled M4's Texinfo dependency, and the
build went through. I also checked on my GNU/Linux system: temporarily
renamed all Texinfo built files from my system and done a clean build of M4
and it succeeded. To be further safe, I built Maneage from this commit
(where M4 doesn't depend on Texinfo) in a Docker container, and it went
through with no problems. So the current M4 version indeed doesn't need
Texinfo. I think adding Texinfo as a dependency of M4 was a historic issue
from the early days.
In the process, I also cleaned 'basic.mk' a little:
- A "# Level N" comment was added on top of each group of software that
can be built in parallel (generally).
- GNU Nano was moved to the end of the file (to be "Level 6").
- Some comments were edited in some places.
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