From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125167 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2018 20:27:45 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 124298 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jun 2018 20:27:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=advise, H*Ad:U*gdb, Live, picked X-HELO: 9pmail.ess.barracuda.com Received: from 9pmail.ess.barracuda.com (HELO 9pmail.ess.barracuda.com) (64.235.150.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:27:44 +0000 Received: from mipsdag02.mipstec.com (mail2.mips.com [12.201.5.32]) by mx27.ess.sfj.cudaops.com (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:27:35 +0000 Received: from [10.20.78.69] (10.20.78.69) by mipsdag02.mipstec.com (10.20.40.47) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256) id 15.1.1415.2; Mon, 4 Jun 2018 13:27:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:27:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Joseph Myers CC: Jan Kratochvil , Doug Evans , Phil Muldoon , Subject: Re: Documentation build regressions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20180601140130.GA296965@host1.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: mipsdag02.mipstec.com (10.20.40.47) To mipsdag02.mipstec.com (10.20.40.47) X-BESS-ID: 1528144052-637137-27052-2246-2 X-BESS-VER: 2018.7-r1805312038 X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 12.201.5.32 X-BESS-Envelope-From: Maciej.Rozycki@mips.com X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Status: SCORE=0.00 using account:ESS59374 scores of KILL_LEVEL=7.0 tests=BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND X-BESS-Orig-Rcpt: joseph@codesourcery.com,jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,xdje42@gmail.com,pmuldoon@redhat.com,gdb@sourceware.org X-BESS-BRTS-Status:1 X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > What texinfo.tex gets used? Is it the one from the binutils-gdb source > > > tree (which is over nine years old) or one from your TeX installation (and > > > if the latter, which version is it)? > > > > It is true it did not work when GDB doc build picked the shipped texinfo.tex. > > Thanks. In that case I advise that Maciej tries updating the shipped > texinfo.tex to the current version - > svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texinfo/trunk/doc/texinfo.tex - to see if that > helps with the observed problem. Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that, however that didn't change anything. I am able to build `gdb.pdf' on another system though, which has: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdfetex 2018.5.30) 4 JUN 2018 20:59 so it looks to me like either triggering a bug in the old version or using a feature present in the new version only. I have no strong opinion on whether we should require a recent enough version of TeX or if we ought to work with any version we might encounter. FWIW I have always considered TeX a pretty conservative tool and I'm quite surprised to see it fail in a version-dependent manner. Maciej