On 02/18/2013 12:16 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 18/02/2013 10:45, Matthew Burgess a écrit : >> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:22:00 -0600, Bruce Dubbs<bruce.du...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>>> at least using jhalfs. It seems to build the executable OK, but then >>>>> >>>>> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --no-split -I . -I >>>>> ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/doc \ >>>>> -I ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/doc/include -o doc/gccint.info >>>>> ../../gcc-4.7.2/gcc/doc/gccint.texi >>>>> >>>>> gives a lot of warnings in files like: >>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 >>>>> Trying a manual make/make install does not work either. It gives the >>>>> same errors. >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking for something on google, but so far have not found anything >>>>> recent or anything that looks like a reasonable work around. >>>> I found: >>>> >>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56258 >>>> >>>> It doesn't help a lot. It appears that we either edit the Makefile >>>> (gcc/Makefile.in) to omit the .info file or retain the older texinfo >>>> package. >> I'd suggest we just push this ticket out to 'Future'; it's been 5 years since >> the last release of Texinfo and I can't remember seeing any major bugs or >> security issues with it. Holding off for another six months to see it in a >> release, while packages sync up with the new requirements it may have for >> syntax, doesn't sound too bad to me. >> >> Regards, >> >> Matt. >> > What if some cutting edge distro has the new Texinfo? Wouldn't it break > chapter 5 builds? > > Pierre >
This is the only one I know about https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/texinfo/ - they've first upgraded to 5.0 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
