What is makeinfo, and how do I get it?

Question

I\'m trying to build GNU grep, and when I run make, I get:

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/bin/bash: line 9: makeinfo: command not found

What is makeinfo, and how do I

Answer 1

Need to install texinfo. configure will still have the cache of its results so it will still think makeinfo is missing. Blow away your source and unpack it again from the tarball. run configure then make.

Answer 2

In (at least) Ubuntu when using bash, it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path. My terminal says you need to install 'texinfo' package.

sudo apt-get install texinfo