Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 6.7 released!

Ralf Corsepius
2007-10-12T09:15:41Z

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:00 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org>, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:53:56 +0200
> >
> > # makeinfo --version
> > makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11
> >
> > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> >
> > > Either too old or so new
> > Probably the latter.
>
> Note that, strictly speaking, this problem is more or less harmless in
> the official release (as opposed to CVS snapshot) because all the Info
> files are already built and distributed as part of the tarball.
Such is theory ;)

I encountered this issue when building gdb-4.7 rpms from original
gdb-6.7 tarballs with no patches applied.

This triggers this configure script bug in libiberty, and caused info
file generation to break, causing some info files to be missing in the
final build.

Ralf