gprofng: update file texinfo.tex?

gprofng: update file texinfo.tex?

[Ruud van der Pas]

Hi team,

I ran into an issue when trying to generate a PDF file from the gprofng.texi
Texinfo file.

I’m using Texinfo 6.7, but texi2pdf did not like my use of @subentry, while this
is supported in 6.7.

It took me quite some time to find out that this was caused by the texinfo.tex
file that is currently in subdirectory binutils-gdb/texinfo.

I was using this file to be more self contained, but it is from 2009 (2009-03-28.05).

Switching to the 2021 version (2021-02-20.11) solved the problem.

We could include the 2021 file in the gprofng/doc directory and use it instead, but
I wonder if it might be better to consider updating the current file in binutils-gdb/texinfo
to a more recent version.

Kind regards, Ruud

Re: gprofng: update file texinfo.tex?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Ruud,

> It took me quite some time to find out that this was caused by the texinfo.tex
> file that is currently in subdirectory binutils-gdb/texinfo.
> 
> I was using this file to be more self contained, but it is from 2009 (2009-03-28.05).
> 
> Switching to the 2021 version (2021-02-20.11) solved the problem.
> 
> We could include the 2021 file in the gprofng/doc directory and use it instead, but
> I wonder if it might be better to consider updating the current file in binutils-gdb/texinfo
> to a more recent version.

I am all for updating this file, but you will have to check to make
sure that it does not break building any of the pdf files for the
other parts of the binutils.

Also - since this file is shared with GDB, you should check with them
too, in order to make sure that they are happy with an upgrade.

Cheers
   Nick

Re: gprofng: update file texinfo.tex?

[Ruud van der Pas]

Hi Nick,

Thanks very much for the response.

> I am all for updating this file,

Thanks!

> but you will have to check to make
> sure that it does not break building any of the pdf files for the
> other parts of the binutils.

Thanks. I will give this a try and share the result with this group.

> Also - since this file is shared with GDB, you should check with them
> too, in order to make sure that they are happy with an upgrade.

I will check this as well.

Kind regards, Ruud