Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 08/07/2018 01:31 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to provide some closure to this issue, I want to report back that
>> 'makeinfo' isn't the true makeinfo at the time that installation of glibc
>> is initiated in Gentoo Prefix. I suspect the presence of this script is a
>> bootstrapping compromise that needs to be improved upon, as later in the
>> flow it becomes a symlink to a perl script called 'texi2any' from package
>> sys-apps/texinfo.
> 
> Forcing users to build docs and making them do stupid tricks like
> MAKEINFO = true is an absolute waste of time and energy. I've got a
> half a dozen dev-boards and gadgets used for testing. Some of the
> boards don't have storage space for the tools or the docs. I am
> constantly patching configure scripts to get rid of the docs.

Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. What you have is a need, and
it is not being met. This is free software, and your patches are welcome
to fix this use case by disabling the manual generation.

> The Configure scripts need to be fixed and stop trying to build docs
> if the doc tools are not installed. If the tools are installed then
> build them with an --enable-XXX just like any other feature.

Sounds great. I look forward to the patches.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.