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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Torbjorn SVENSSON <torbjorn.svensson@foss.st.com>
Cc: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Generate porting.info in build tree rather than source tree
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 07:29:51 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2Rc//StgimNQgxW@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8b2e663-e901-4e78-2ed8-8785369a6a65@foss.st.com>

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On 31 Oct 2022 16:10, Torbjorn SVENSSON wrote:
> On 2022-10-30 08:12, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 29 Oct 2022 17:38, Torbjorn SVENSSON wrote:
> >> Okay, so in that case, something changed in the newlib build process to
> >> generate and install the porting.info file
> > 
> > porting.info is part of libgloss, not newlib.  i understand the source tarball
> > is packaged overall as "newlib" so it can be a little confusing.
> > 
> > older versions build & install porting.info if you use the install-info target.
> > but it wouldn't do it by default.
> 
> Might be so, but not for the default make target (the one I used). What 
> make target should I use to build everything, just like the build system 
> did before your improvement, but avoid the .info files?

the GNU project provides no such target/config.  you can prob cheat by
setting MAKEINFO to a stub program.  or just build the info pages.  i
don't see why building them is a problem in the first place.
-mike

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-28 15:40 Torbjorn SVENSSON
2022-10-29 13:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2022-10-29 15:38   ` Torbjorn SVENSSON
2022-10-30  7:12     ` Mike Frysinger
2022-10-31 15:10       ` Torbjorn SVENSSON
2022-11-04  0:29         ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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