Re: bootstrap/10484: fastjar requires modern makeinfo

Re: bootstrap/10484: fastjar requires modern makeinfo

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/10484; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/10484: fastjar requires modern makeinfo
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:45:46 +0100 (BST)

 On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
 
 > >Fix:
 > 	Copy the code from gcc/configure.in into fastjar/configure.in that
 > 	checks the version of makeinfo.
 
 Or move the version check to toplevel.  Doing either will also allow the
 fastjar manual to ue @copying, which I didn't do in the main @copying
 patch because of the lack of makeinfo version checks for fastjar.
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk

bootstrap/10484: fastjar requires modern makeinfo

[rearnsha]

>Number:         10484
>Category:       bootstrap
>Synopsis:       fastjar requires modern makeinfo
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 24 19:36:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Richard Earnshaw
>Release:        3.4 20030423 (experimental)
>Organization:
ARM
>Environment:
System: NetBSD osprey.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk 1.6P NetBSD 1.6P (OSPREY) #87: Sat Mar 15 00:03:40 GMT 2003 rearnsha@osprey.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/arch/cats/compile/OSPREY cats


	
host: arm-unknown-netbsdelf
build: arm-unknown-netbsdelf
target: arm-unknown-netbsdelf
configured with: /work/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs/configure --prefix=/work/rearnsha/gnu/install --disable-checking arm-netbsdelf
>Description:
	The Makefile in the fastjar directory now uses the --split-size 
	option, but this is not available in non-modern version of makeinfo.
	Either the option should not be used, or configure should check for
	a version of makeinfo that has this capability.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Bootstrap gcc on a machine with an old version of makeinfo (eg 4.0)
	
>Fix:
	Copy the code from gcc/configure.in into fastjar/configure.in that
	checks the version of makeinfo.
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: