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

[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2004-02-01 17:44 -------
Subject: Re:  3.3.3-prerelease is missing info files

"jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| 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).

Sure.  But, what I would appreciate is some checkings before going on
building.  Some may appear before the source is downloaded (brik,
makeinof and Pod::Man); some may appear during configuration...

|  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)?

Yes.  That would be welcome. 

-- Gaby


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