> -----Original Message----- > From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:05 PM > To: Weddington, Eric; FX Coudert; Gerald Pfeifer; Richard > Guenther; Joerg Wunsch; GCC Development; Denis Chertykov; > Anatoly Sokolov; Lamo, Jo Inge; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bootstrap broken on mingw > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:59:07PM CET: > > * Weddington, Eric wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM CET: > > > Is there any reason why we can't revert the patch that > caused this? > > > > Well if we do then we need to reopen PR 35148 which would > be equivalent > > to requiring texinfo 4.11 (on all systems), which was not deemed > > desirable earlier in this thread. > > Hmm. An alternative would be: revert the patch that caused this, > document that users with texinfo older than 4.11 need to > configure with > an absolute path (/path/to/gcc/configure ...) if they want to > be able to > build DVI and PDF. > > Hmm, I suppose that will still not make things work with MinGW, as I > doubt building like 'C:/path/to/gcc/configure ...' will work. >
No it wouldn't. I don't understand why reverting the patch would cause havoc. The 20080208 snapshot built just fine, even with an old texinfo version. I'd rather go back to that behaviour. I'm tyring out your new patch now... Eric Weddington
