From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 99115 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2018 11:18:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-help-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-help-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 99099 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2018 11:18:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=jeffrey X-HELO: mail-qt0-f178.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f178.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f178.google.com) (209.85.216.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:18:55 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f178.google.com with SMTP id y5-v6so17263862qti.12 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from [10.150.73.190] (170.sub-174-192-29.myvzw.com. [174.192.29.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t27-v6sm687930qkl.11.2018.08.07.04.18.52 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: glibc 2.25 error during install To: noloader@gmail.com, Leo Butler Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org References: <06a0d1fe-75bd-4af4-6ab1-de80ba5f9443@redhat.com> From: Carlos O'Donell Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 On 08/07/2018 01:31 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Leo Butler 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.