From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26555 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2018 04:46:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26537 invoked by uid 89); 1 Apr 2018 04:46:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=proven, broke, readily X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:46:51 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A7FD40676C0; Sun, 1 Apr 2018 04:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host1.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-116-55.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.55]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F097215CDC6; Sun, 1 Apr 2018 04:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:46:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Simon Marchi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] Fix gdb/doc/ PDF build on Fedora Rawhide==F-29 Message-ID: <20180401044646.GA21364@host1.jankratochvil.net> References: <20180331173219.GA18607@host1.jankratochvil.net> <3b49baa5f0d1ca5676df3a9f78113abe@polymtl.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3b49baa5f0d1ca5676df3a9f78113abe@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 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