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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:56:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW
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> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:46:24 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> >   The reason is that gdb-cfg.texi and GDBvn.texi are not in the
> >   tarball, but they are build dependencies of the manuals:
> >
> >     GDB_DOC_BUILD_INCLUDES = \
> >             gdb-cfg.texi \
> >             GDBvn.texi
> >     GDB_DOC_FILES = \
> >             $(srcdir)/gdb.texinfo \
> >             $(GDB_DOC_SOURCE_INCLUDES) \
> >             $(GDB_DOC_BUILD_INCLUDES)
> >     ...
> >     # GDB MANUAL: info file
> >     gdb.info: ${GDB_DOC_FILES}
> >             $(MAKEINFO_CMD) $(READLINE_TEXI_INCFLAG) -I ${GDBMI_DIR} -I $(srcdir) \
> >                     -o gdb.info $(srcdir)/gdb.texinfo
> >
> >   I think these two files should be added to the distribution, since
> >   end users should not be required to have Texinfo installed to build
> >   GDB.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me, but it seems odd.
> Why hasn't this come up before?

I have no idea.  Maybe it's some remnant from the times, not so long
ago, when manuals weren't produced unless you said "make info".

> > As for standards.info, if we decide to keep distributing it (which I
> > don't think we should), we should at least make a point of having the
> > latest version in our tarballs; the one in 7.3.92 isn't.
> 
> Minor preference for keeping it, I've gotten used to it being installed.

You can always get it from its origin, which is here:

   http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.texi.tar.gz