Info-files missing in gcc 3.2.2

Herbert Schmid sairia@phaidon.philo.at
Thu Feb 6 16:01:00 GMT 2003


Hello,

I had the same problem with Debian 3.0, because it ships with an
very old mkinfo.

I now use the one of unstable.

Yours,
Herbert

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Christian Cornelssen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Volker Reichelt wrote:
>
> > the info files seem to be missing in the gcc 3.2.2 release so that no
> > info-files will be available on systems without makeinfo or an outdated
> > version of makeinfo :-(
>
> $ tar tjf gcc-3.2.2.tar.bz2 | fgrep .info
> $
>
> Indeed.
>
> However, even though my build platform has only makeinfo-4.1
> installed, I find (after building) a bunch of '*.info*',
> including
>
> ./gcc/f/g77.info
> ./gcc/doc/cpp.info
> ./gcc/doc/gcc.info
> ./gcc/doc/gccint.info
> ./gcc/doc/cppinternals.info
> ./gcc/java/gcj.info
>
> (and of course *-1 etc.)
> Are some important info files missing?
>
> > Is there anything that can be done about that unfortunate situation?
>
> If this is still a concern, I'd suggest unpacking the release tarball,
> running makeinfo, tar it again and replace the versions in the
> download area. (No suffix games here.) This saves us from having to
> test the CVS checkout again.
>
> Perhaps re-running the release script(s) from the 3.2.2 release,
> without CVS actions, but with proper makeinfo available,
> would do the regeneration.  If so, the release scripts should be
> refined to test for a recent makeinfo.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Cornelssen
>




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