Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/11/2011 06:38 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: >> coreutils.texi:1032: Unknown command >> `/www.validlab.com/@/goldberg/@/paper.pdf)'. > > @/ is a recently added texinfo command for optional line-break, and > since it is not understood by makeinfo 4.2 that explains your error > message. We ought to patch bootstrap.conf to list the minimum > prerequisite makeinfo that we actually do support during bootstrap > (right now bootstrap.conf doesn't have any version check on makeinfo). > > Meanwhile, as Paul said, makeinfo should only be required during > bootstrap, not when building from a tarball.
Good idea. Anything you'd change, before I push it in your name? >From 7a8e474feb04e5753052b01c461bbca0c966ad88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:05:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] build: list makeinfo 4.13 as a build-from-git requirement * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): List 4.13 as minimum makeinfo version, now that we use its new "@/" command for optional line-break. Prompted by Joachim Schmitz's report in http://debbugs.gnu.org/9050. --- THANKS.in | 1 + bootstrap.conf | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in index 4bbee80..90d04d8 100644 --- a/THANKS.in +++ b/THANKS.in @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ Jesse Thilo [email protected] Jie Xu [email protected] Jim Blandy [email protected] Jim Dennis [email protected] +Joachim Schmitz [email protected] Joakim Rosqvist [email protected] Jochen Hein [email protected] Joe Orton [email protected] diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 08bfc21..d91bee0 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ gettext 0.17 git 1.4.4 gperf - gzip - -makeinfo - +makeinfo 4.13 patch - perl 5.5 rsync - -- 1.7.6.430.g34be2
