Re: other/6653: make dvi fails on solaris, gcc-3.0.4

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>]

The following reply was made to PR other/6653; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: jeff deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/6653: make dvi fails on solaris, gcc-3.0.4
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 02:22:12 +0100 (BST)

 On Mon, 13 May 2002, jeff deifik wrote:
 
 > TEXINPUTS=.:/home/jdeifik/work/gnu/jeff-native-gcc/gcc:/home/jdeifik/work/gnu/gc
 > c-3.0.4/gcc/doc::../../gcc-3.0.4/gcc/doc:../../gcc-3.0.4/gcc/doc/include:
 > INDEXSTYLE=.:/home/jdeifik/work/gnu/jeff-native-gcc/gcc:/home/jdeifik/work/gnu/g
 > cc-3.0.4/gcc/doc::../../gcc-3.0.4/gcc/doc:../../gcc-3.0.4/gcc/doc/include:
 > + test -n
 > + sed 1q ./../../gcc-3.0.4/gcc/doc/gcc.texi
 > + fgrep input texinfo
 > language=texinfo
 > bibtex=
 > texindex=texindex
 > + test dvi = dvi
 > tex=tex
 > + test  = t
 > txiversion_tex=txiversion.tex
 > + echo \input texinfo.tex @bye
 > + cd /tmp/t2d5992
 > + sed -n s/^.*\[\(.*\)version \(....\)-\(..\)-\(..\).*$/txiformat=\1
 > txiversion=
 > "\2\3\4"/p
 > + tex txiversion.tex
 > + eval
 > + false texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `' ...
 > + test 19990129 -le
 
 OK, the problem appears to be that the test for texinfo.tex being recent
 enough for macro expansion is done in a temporary directory, but the
 TEXINPUTS setting (from the -I arguments) pointing to the right
 texinfo.tex to use still includes relative paths.  Report this to the
 Texinfo maintainers as a Texinfo bug.  As a workaround, install a
 sufficiently recent (at least 19990129) texinfo.tex version in a directory
 TeX searches by default, or set TEXINPUTS to point to such a directory
 before running texi2dvi; if macro support is detected, the right version
 of texinfo.tex (that included with GCC) will then be used for the actual
 formatting.
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk