Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-10T20:55:56Z

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:24 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > Â  The reason is that gdb-cfg.texi and GDBvn.texi are not in the
> > Â  tarball, but they are build dependencies of the manuals:
> >
> > Â  Â  GDB_DOC_BUILD_INCLUDES = \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  gdb-cfg.texi \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  GDBvn.texi
> > Â  Â  GDB_DOC_FILES = \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  $(srcdir)/gdb.texinfo \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  $(GDB_DOC_SOURCE_INCLUDES) \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  $(GDB_DOC_BUILD_INCLUDES)
> > Â  Â  ...
> > Â  Â  # GDB MANUAL: info file
> > Â  Â  gdb.info: ${GDB_DOC_FILES}
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  $(MAKEINFO_CMD) $(READLINE_TEXI_INCFLAG) -I ${GDBMI_DIR} -I $(srcdir) \
> > Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  -o gdb.info $(srcdir)/gdb.texinfo
> >
> > Â  I think these two files should be added to the distribution, since
> > Â  end users should not be required to have Texinfo installed to build
> > Â  GDB.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, but it seems odd.
> Why hasn't this come up before?

I have no idea. Maybe it's some remnant from the times, not so long
ago, when manuals weren't produced unless you said "make info".

> > As for standards.info, if we decide to keep distributing it (which I
> > don't think we should), we should at least make a point of having the
> > latest version in our tarballs; the one in 7.3.92 isn't.
>
> Minor preference for keeping it, I've gotten used to it being installed.

You can always get it from its origin, which is here: