From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32071 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2012 19:20:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 32062 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Oct 2012 19:20:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com) (69.89.22.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:20:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 4170 invoked by uid 0); 6 Oct 2012 19:20:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box531.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.131) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2012 19:20:25 -0000 Received: from [146.115.71.23] (port=33457 helo=[172.31.1.105]) by box531.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TKZvE-00024o-UJ for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:20:25 -0600 Message-ID: <1349551223.10552.4.camel@homebase> Subject: GDB 7.5 broken without makeinfo From: Paul Smith Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org To: "gdb@sourceware.org" Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:20:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Identified-User: {678:box531.bluehost.com:madscie1:mad-scientist.us} {sentby:smtp auth 146.115.71.23 authed with paul@mad-scientist.us} X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 I've seen various bugs reporting that older GDB's were not buildable on systems which don't contain makeinfo; for example: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13638 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861 However, I've just tried GDB 7.5 and it's still not buildable on these systems. The problem is that the gdb.info output file depends on a constructed file GDBvn.texi which sets some variables, but this file is not provided in the distribution file. As a result it is always rebuilt and as a result of that, gdb.info is always out of date and always needs to be rebuilt. I've filed http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14678 It would be handy if someone had a VM or Debian schroot or something to perform test builds in, where none of the autotools were installed. This is especially important when changing the makefiles. Cheers!