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Re: [patch] require makeinfo 4.2 or better
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: cgd at broadcom dot com
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dj at redhat dot com,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 00:55:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: [patch] require makeinfo 4.2 or better
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Fri, 2 May 2003 21:53:34 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Daniel, which (or both) would you like to see on the binutils branch?
> >
> > I haven't been paying attention. Why does binutils need it?
>
> heh. using with installed makeinfo 4.0 in path:
>
> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 -I../../src/libiberty ../../src/libiberty/libiberty.texi
> makeinfo: unrecognized option `--split-size=5000000'
> Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
> [...]
> gmake[1]: *** [libiberty.info] Error 1
>
>
> 8-)
>
> options are:
>
> (1) remove --split-size use (go with --no-split instead), which is
> compatible with earlier texinfo. (This which has been done on the
> gcc 3.3 branch, but *not* on trunk.)
>
> (2) require texinfo 4.2 or later. (done on gcc & src trunk.)
>
> (3) both.
>
>
> (1) gets rid of the error above, but apparently there are other
> reasons (they've been kicked out of my memory, see the thread on gcc@
> 8-) which 4.2 and later are desirable.
Hmm. For now, let's go for --no-split. Would you mind fixing the
branch?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer