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RE: bootstrap broken on mingw
- From: "Weddington, Eric" <eweddington at cso dot atmel dot com>
- To: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>, "FX Coudert" <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>, "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, "Joerg Wunsch" <j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de>, "GCC Development" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Denis Chertykov" <chertykov at gmail dot com>, "Anatoly Sokolov" <aesok at post dot ru>, "Lamo, Jo Inge" <jo-inge dot lamo at atmel dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:08:58 -0700
- Subject: RE: bootstrap broken on mingw
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:05 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric; FX Coudert; Gerald Pfeifer; Richard
> Guenther; Joerg Wunsch; GCC Development; Denis Chertykov;
> Anatoly Sokolov; Lamo, Jo Inge; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: bootstrap broken on mingw
>
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:59:07PM CET:
> > * Weddington, Eric wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM CET:
> > > Is there any reason why we can't revert the patch that
> caused this?
> >
> > Well if we do then we need to reopen PR 35148 which would
> be equivalent
> > to requiring texinfo 4.11 (on all systems), which was not deemed
> > desirable earlier in this thread.
>
> Hmm. An alternative would be: revert the patch that caused this,
> document that users with texinfo older than 4.11 need to
> configure with
> an absolute path (/path/to/gcc/configure ...) if they want to
> be able to
> build DVI and PDF.
>
> Hmm, I suppose that will still not make things work with MinGW, as I
> doubt building like 'C:/path/to/gcc/configure ...' will work.
>
No it wouldn't. I don't understand why reverting the patch would cause
havoc. The 20080208 snapshot built just fine, even with an old texinfo
version. I'd rather go back to that behaviour.
I'm tyring out your new patch now...
Eric Weddington