makeinfo?

**hemlock** · February 23rd, 2005

It doesn't look like the makeinfo utility is available in Ubuntu "warty". Is this true? One post suggested:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

I tried this, but still no makeinfo...

**avnbsuresh** · June 13th, 2005

I had the same issue with unbuntu. You can fix it by installing texinfo

sudo apt-get install texinfo

**yygyt** · August 17th, 2009

I have the same issue with ubuntu, too but installing texinfo does not solve the problem.
Does anyone have an idea?
I get the following error

Code:

for f in standards.info configure.info; do \
          if test -f ../../newlib-1.15.0/etc/`echo $f | sed -e 's/.info$/.texi/'`; then \
            if make "MAKEINFO=/home/.../aibo/newlib-1.15.0/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000" $f; then \
              true; \
            else \
              exit 1; \
            fi; \
          fi; \
        done
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/.../aibo/bld-newlib-1.15.0/etc'
/home/.../aibo/newlib-1.15.0/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --no-split -I../../newlib-1.15.0/etc -o standards.info ../../newlib-1.15.0/etc/standards.texi
WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
         indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
         call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
         DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
         the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive site.
make[3]: *** [standards.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/.../aibo/bld-newlib-1.15.0/etc'
make[2]: *** [info] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/.../aibo/bld-newlib-1.15.0/etc'
make[1]: *** [all-etc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.../aibo/bld-newlib-1.15.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

**shakty** · September 29th, 2009

It worked for me

**robertjd** · December 14th, 2009

Installing the texinfo package worked for me also (Ubuntu 9.10)

**jamshid** · February 27th, 2010

I was getting this makeinfo error when trying to build and install emacs 23.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. (painful!)

After doing "sudo apt-get install texinfo" to get the "makeinfo" command, make sure you run "./configure" on a freshly unpacked source directory. "configure" apparently caches information and "remembers" you don't have makeinfo, so you'll keep getting that error about a missing makeinfo.

Btw, I wanted emacs23, instead of emacs22, to get nice looking [antialiased] fonts. To build you need to "sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" along with "libjpeg62-dev" and "libjpeg62-dev".

**Vi3GameHkr** · March 12th, 2010

Originally Posted by jamshid

I was getting this makeinfo error when trying to build and install emacs 23.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. (painful!)

After doing "sudo apt-get install texinfo" to get the "makeinfo" command, make sure you run "./configure" on a freshly unpacked source directory. "configure" apparently caches information and "remembers" you don't have makeinfo, so you'll keep getting that error about a missing makeinfo.

Btw, I wanted emacs23, instead of emacs22, to get nice looking [antialiased] fonts. To build you need to "sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" along with "libjpeg62-dev" and "libjpeg62-dev".

I hope I won't get in trouble for letting everyone know that this worked for me.

**dakshbhatt21** · February 9th, 2013

thank you, it works for me

**overdrank** · February 9th, 2013

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