Re: New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>]

On Thu, 2 April 1998, 22:54:05, law@cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 >   In message < 199803310231.SAA11043@rtl.cygnus.com >you write:
 >   > A lot texinfo related problems could be fixed simply by not building the
 >   > stuff we don't need.  For instance, this gets me past the texinfo build
 >   > problems others are reporting, though I don't know yet whether the resulting
 >   > makeinfo program works, my build is still going.
 >   > 
 >   > There was a similar change in the old EGCS texinfo sources.
 >   > 	Fri Oct 31 09:39:31 1997  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
 >   > 	* Makefile.in (install targets): Add a dummy target for sunos make.
 >   > 	(SUBDIR): Remove 'info'.  It's unneeded.
 > Part of the original idea behind not building certain things was
 > because our texinfo was horribly out of date and we didn't want to
 > build anything except the bare bones necessary to format the docs.
 > Similarly we tweaked make install to do nothing to avoid overwriting
 > a previously installed texinfo (which would probably have been newer
 > than the one egcs would install).
 > 
 > So the question at had is do we want to continue the the practice
 > of not building stuff we don't need and not installing texinfo?

Last Saturday I did a `make install' and got pretty surprised when I
saw, it did not only install the usual `gcc', `c++', `g++' ... but
`info', `makeinfo', `texi2dvi', ... and even the texinfo related
locale files. Unnecessary to say, it completely overwrote my previous
texinfo-3.12 installation :-)

 > 
 > I don't care much either way.

I'd prefer not to build and/or install anything which doesn't actually 
belong to egcs.

 > 
 > jeff

manfred