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GDB 7.5 broken without makeinfo
- From: Paul Smith <psmith at gnu dot org>
- To: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:20:23 -0400
- Subject: GDB 7.5 broken without makeinfo
- Reply-to: psmith at gnu dot org
I've seen various bugs reporting that older GDB's were not buildable on
systems which don't contain makeinfo; for example:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13638
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861
However, I've just tried GDB 7.5 and it's still not buildable on these
systems. The problem is that the gdb.info output file depends on a
constructed file GDBvn.texi which sets some variables, but this file is
not provided in the distribution file.
As a result it is always rebuilt and as a result of that, gdb.info is
always out of date and always needs to be rebuilt.
I've filed http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14678
It would be handy if someone had a VM or Debian schroot or something to
perform test builds in, where none of the autotools were installed.
This is especially important when changing the makefiles.
Cheers!