Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-30 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Eric" == Eric Gallager via Gdb-patches > writes: Eric> Just as a point of reference, but the default makeinfo shipped with Eric> macOS (/usr/bin/makeinfo) is stuck at version 4.8 due to the whole Eric> GPL3 transition. The other makeinfos that I have installed are: [...] I think brew

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Eric Gallager via Gcc-patches
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:23 AM Nick Clifton via Gcc-patches wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Currently the top level configure.ac file sets the minimum required > version of texinfo to be 4.7. I would like to propose changing this > to 6.8. > > The reason for the change is that the bfd documenta

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Nick" == Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches > writes: Nick> The reason for the change is that the bfd documentation now needs at Nick> least version 6.8 in order to build[1][2]. Sorry about this. It was fallout from my patch. However, GDB has used this same one-argument @node syntax

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Xi Ruoyao via Gcc-patches
On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 19:01 +0300, Eli Zaretskii via Gcc-patches wrote: > > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:45:20 +0200 > > Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org, > >  binut...@sourceware.org > > From: Jakub Jelinek via Gdb-patches > > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Nic

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Fangrui Song
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:50 AM YunQiang Su via Binutils wrote: > > > I think that is too new. > > We still allow building gcc e.g. with GCC 4.8 from ~ 10 years ago and > > I think various boxes where people regularly build gcc will have similarly > > old other tools. > > So, bumping requirement f

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii via Gcc-patches
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:45:20 +0200 > Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org, > binut...@sourceware.org > From: Jakub Jelinek via Gdb-patches > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Nick Clifton via Gcc-patches wrote: > > Currently the top level configure.ac file set

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread YunQiang Su via Gcc-patches
> I think that is too new. > We still allow building gcc e.g. with GCC 4.8 from ~ 10 years ago and > I think various boxes where people regularly build gcc will have similarly > old other tools. > So, bumping requirement from ~ 20 years old tools to ~ 10 years old tools > might be ok, but requiring

Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Nick Clifton via Gcc-patches wrote: > Currently the top level configure.ac file sets the minimum required > version of texinfo to be 4.7. I would like to propose changing this > to 6.8. > > The reason for the change is that the bfd documentation

RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo

2023-08-29 Thread Nick Clifton via Gcc-patches
Hi Guys, Currently the top level configure.ac file sets the minimum required version of texinfo to be 4.7. I would like to propose changing this to 6.8. The reason for the change is that the bfd documentation now needs at least version 6.8 in order to build[1][2]. Given that 4.7 is