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Re: Patch to remove texinfo


On Dec  8, 2000, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Should there then be a check that the version of in-tree texinfo is
> sufficient, or should be presume that people dropping it into the tree
> know what they're doing and will drop at least 4.0 in the tree (if a
> requirement for 4.0 is created, which I want to do)?

Since the texinfo tree wouldn't be built by the time GCC is
configured, it would be a tough call to require any testing.  I'd
rather just expect the user to do the right think in this unlikely
case.

>> WRT INSTALL_INFO, not having it defined in configure is ok, but I'd
>> rather be able to override it in the `make install' command line, in

> INSTALL_INFO isn't the name of the install-info program - that's hardcoded
> in the Makefile.in - but rather the dependency of make install needed
> before the patch when the install-info target didn't allow for info files
> not being available, and so not needed after the patch.

Ah, I see.  Ok, then.

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