> You are correct. I have gone ahead and applied the patch that you
> submitted for PR 28909. (Sorry for the delay in reviewing it!)
>
Many thanks for your pointer to the timestamp issue. Looking forward to
more contributions in future.
Thanks for checking this.
>> The current binutils release 2.40 requires texinfo to build from source
>> because gas does not have .info files.
>
> I believe that it does:
>
> % tar tvf binutils-2.40.tar.xz | grep as.info
> -rw-rw-rw- root/root 1220923 2023-01-14 00:00
> binutils-2.40/gas/
The current binutils release 2.40 requires texinfo to build from source
because gas does not have .info files. Typically texinfo is only needed
if the .texi files are modified as releases should contain .info files.
