From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25868 invoked by alias); 1 May 2002 13:06:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25832 invoked from network); 1 May 2002 13:06:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO plum.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 May 2002 13:06:43 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by plum.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 172tog-000446-00; Wed, 01 May 2002 14:06:42 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 172tog-0000uc-00; Wed, 01 May 2002 14:06:42 +0100 Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:06:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: To: "Neal D. Becker" cc: , Subject: Re: gcc-20020429 make info failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On 1 May 2002, Neal D. Becker wrote: > make info The info and install-info targets aren't documented as targets for users installing GCC; you must expect failures if you use them with the effect of bypassing the configure checks on the installed makeinfo version. I've applied (mainline and 3.1 branch) the following patch to update the documentation of required makeinfo version in install.texi. Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.13905 diff -u -r1.13905 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 1 May 2002 08:27:42 -0000 1.13905 +++ ChangeLog 1 May 2002 12:57:35 -0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-05-01 Joseph S. Myers + + * doc/install.texi: Update Texinfo version requirement + documentation. + 2002-05-01 Jakub Jelinek PR target/6512, PR target/5628 Index: doc/install.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v retrieving revision 1.107 diff -u -r1.107 install.texi --- doc/install.texi 30 Apr 2002 18:04:42 -0000 1.107 +++ doc/install.texi 1 May 2002 12:57:36 -0000 @@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ not need Bison installed to build them. When building from CVS or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo -documentation, you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo installed if you +documentation, you need version 4.1 or later of Texinfo installed if you want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release. @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ @uref{../bugs.html,,bug reporting guidelines}. If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make -dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.0) +dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.1) and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. You can also @@ -3363,7 +3363,7 @@ @end html @heading @anchor{powerpc-*-netbsd*}powerpc-*-netbsd* PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@. To build the -documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.0 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included +documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.1 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included Texinfo version 3.12). @html -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk