> 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.
Hi Benson,
This helps. However, the build script removes config.texi and then
copies all.texi into config.texi changing timestamps and forcing a
rebuild that requires makeinfo. This seems to have been encountered
elsewhere, for example https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/34173
The reason for do
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/
Hi Benson,
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/doc/as.info
Typically texin
