Re: [patch] Fix gdb/doc/ PDF build on Fedora Rawhide==F-29

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 01:44:16 +0200, Simon Marchi wrote:
>   # mkdir /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local
>   # ln -s ../../texmf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat
>   # texhash
> 
> makes it work for me on F29.  So maybe there's actually a bug in the F29
> version of the texinfo package that you should report?

Thanks, filed:
	Regression from F-28: texinfo PDF document no longer builds
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1562580


> As for the version of texinfo.tex in the source tree, my guess is (correct
> me if I'm wrong) that it was put there in a time where it was not so readily
> available as a package in distros.  But realistically, today, everyone picks
> it up from their distro's texinfo package (which is proven by the fact that
> you didn't need to set TEXINPUTS to find the in-tree version until a distro
> package broke).
> 
> If we can now expect people to pick up texinfo.tex from their distro, then I
> think we should instead remove SET_TEXINPUTS altogether.

GDB sources carry even readline/, zlib/ and intl/ from which at least that
readline/ causes --with-system-readline to be buggy and despite causing such
problems they are still there.  My guess is it is so because some OS which
disappeared 30 years ago did miss them.


Jan