Re: New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

Re: New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

[Jim Wilson]

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.

Index: Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/texinfo/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -r1.4 Makefile.am
*** Makefile.am	1998/03/24 19:40:22	1.4
--- Makefile.am	1998/03/31 02:26:47
*************** EXTRA_DIST = INTRODUCTION dir-example
*** 14,16 ****
--- 14,19 ----
  # Do doc/ last so makeinfo will be built when we get there.
  # Others are alphabetical.
  SUBDIRS = intl lib info makeinfo po util doc
+ # ??? For EGCS, only build the stuff we actually need.  This eliminates the
+ # need for xgettext that exists in the po subdirectory.
+ SUBDIRS = intl lib makeinfo
Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/texinfo/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -r1.9 Makefile.in
*** Makefile.in	1998/03/24 19:40:23	1.9
--- Makefile.in	1998/03/31 02:26:47
*************** EXTRA_DIST = INTRODUCTION dir-example
*** 97,102 ****
--- 97,105 ----
  # Do doc/ last so makeinfo will be built when we get there.
  # Others are alphabetical.
  SUBDIRS = intl lib info makeinfo po util doc
+ # ??? For EGCS, only build the stuff we actually need.  This eliminates the
+ # need for xgettext that exists in the po subdirectory.
+ SUBDIRS = intl lib makeinfo
  ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4
  mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs
  CONFIG_HEADER = config.h

Re: New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

[Jeffrey A Law]

  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?

I don't care much either way.

jeff

Re: New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

[Manfred Hollstein]

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