[Bug other/13961] 3.3.3-prerelease is missing info files

[jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk]

------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk  2004-02-01 16:56 -------
Subject: Re:  3.3.3-prerelease is missing info files

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net wrote:

> Most certainly!
> I think, it should check that all tools needed to build the tarballs
> are present and hard error -before- the source build starts.
> (For example, I've discovered very late in the build that the "brik"
> program was missing in my new environment).  

You don't want to duplicate the specific version numbers (it's hard enough
as is to ensure that people changing them update them everywhere they are
duplicated).  In the case of brik, that's only used from the script, so
there isn't a duplication issue.  In the case of makeinfo and Pod::Man,
perhaps --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir could also turn the relevant
configure checks into hard errors (and for bison and flex though those
would get caught anyway by build errors)?



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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13961