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Re: gcc-20020429 make info failure
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Neal D. Becker" <nbecker at hns dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:06:39 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: gcc-20020429 make info failure
On 1 May 2002, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> make info
The info and install-info targets aren't documented as targets for users
installing GCC; you must expect failures if you use them with the effect
of bypassing the configure checks on the installed makeinfo version.
I've applied (mainline and 3.1 branch) the following patch to update
the documentation of required makeinfo version in install.texi.
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.13905
diff -u -r1.13905 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog 1 May 2002 08:27:42 -0000 1.13905
+++ ChangeLog 1 May 2002 12:57:35 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-05-01 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
+
+ * doc/install.texi: Update Texinfo version requirement
+ documentation.
+
2002-05-01 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
PR target/6512, PR target/5628
Index: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -u -r1.107 install.texi
--- doc/install.texi 30 Apr 2002 18:04:42 -0000 1.107
+++ doc/install.texi 1 May 2002 12:57:36 -0000
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@
not need Bison installed to build them.
When building from CVS or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
-documentation, you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo installed if you
+documentation, you need version 4.1 or later of Texinfo installed if you
want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@
@uref{../bugs.html,,bug reporting guidelines}.
If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
-dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.0)
+dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.1)
and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. You can also
@@ -3363,7 +3363,7 @@
@end html
@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-netbsd*}powerpc-*-netbsd*
PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@. To build the
-documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.0 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included
+documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.1 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included
Texinfo version 3.12).
@html
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk