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Re: Documentation build regressions
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>, <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 21:27:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: Documentation build regressions
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1805301840590.10896@tp.orcam.me.uk> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1805311721310.2935@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <20180601140130.GA296965@host1.jankratochvil.net> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1806011936350.25633@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > > What texinfo.tex gets used? Is it the one from the binutils-gdb source
> > > tree (which is over nine years old) or one from your TeX installation (and
> > > if the latter, which version is it)?
> >
> > It is true it did not work when GDB doc build picked the shipped texinfo.tex.
>
> Thanks. In that case I advise that Maciej tries updating the shipped
> texinfo.tex to the current version -
> svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texinfo/trunk/doc/texinfo.tex - to see if that
> helps with the observed problem.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I have tried that, however that didn't change anything. I am able to
build `gdb.pdf' on another system though, which has:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdfetex 2018.5.30) 4 JUN 2018 20:59
so it looks to me like either triggering a bug in the old version or using
a feature present in the new version only. I have no strong opinion on
whether we should require a recent enough version of TeX or if we ought to
work with any version we might encounter.
FWIW I have always considered TeX a pretty conservative tool and I'm
quite surprised to see it fail in a version-dependent manner.
Maciej