egcs-19990228 build crashes: Calls wrong makeinfo
Jeffrey A Law
law@hurl.cygnus.com
Mon Mar 1 11:32:00 GMT 1999
In message < Pine.GSO.4.10.9903012022440.27840-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> >> /mnt/egcs-19990228/gcc/gcc.texi
> >> /mnt/egcs-19990228/gcc/install.texi:1074: Unknown command `uref'.
> >> /mnt/egcs-19990228/gcc/install.texi:1074: Misplaced `{'.
> >> /mnt/egcs-19990228/gcc/install.texi:1074: Misplaced `}'. >>
> > I here (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) just installed texinfo-3.12, the build is
> > going fine so far. Doesn't fix the problem, though...
>
> This is a side effect of a patch by Craig Burley. See the mail with
> subject "MAKEINFO not properly set during `make' or `make bootstrap'"
> a couple of days ago.
>
>
> May I suggest that we back out that patch unless/until someone provides a
> fix, as this is a real bootstrap killer?
Fix it. Backing out a patch should be a last resort.
I'm not going to worry too much about this right now. My concentration is on
the egcs-1.1.2 minor release. Once that's done my focus will return to the
mainline sources.
jeff
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