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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,  binutils@sourceware.org,
	 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Top level configure: Require a minimum version 6.8 texinfo
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:07:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyz5sror.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wmxd50xj.fsf@redhat.com> (Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:21:44 +0100")

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Nick>   The reason for the change is that the bfd documentation now needs at
Nick>   least version 6.8 in order to build[1][2].

Sorry about this.  It was fallout from my patch.

However, GDB has used this same one-argument @node syntax for a long
time without any complaint.  Like, python.texi has used this since at
least 2014.

So, if makeinfo 6.8 is really needed by BFD, then I think it must be for
some other reason.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-29 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-29 15:21 Nick Clifton
2023-08-29 15:45 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-08-29 15:50   ` YunQiang Su
2023-08-29 16:09     ` Fangrui Song
2023-08-29 16:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-29 16:09     ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-08-29 17:07 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-08-30  2:53 ` Eric Gallager
2023-08-30 20:28   ` Tom Tromey

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