makeinfo update

makeinfo update

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Could we please get a newer version of makeinfo on sourceware?

Right now we still have

  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
  Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

which runs into bugs generating the web documentation, bugs that
I just verified version 6.3 (for example) has fixed.

Even a non-standard location would be fine; we (= I ;-) can adjust 
the invocation from the gccadmin account.

Thanks,
Gerald

Re: makeinfo update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:14:01AM -0800, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>Could we please get a newer version of makeinfo on sourceware?
>
>Right now we still have
>
>  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>  Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
>which runs into bugs generating the web documentation, bugs that
>I just verified version 6.3 (for example) has fixed.
>
>Even a non-standard location would be fine; we (= I ;-) can adjust 
>the invocation from the gccadmin account.

Looking into this now.

cgf

Re: makeinfo update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 08:25:41AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:14:01AM -0800, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>Could we please get a newer version of makeinfo on sourceware?
>>
>>Right now we still have
>>
>>  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>>  Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>>which runs into bugs generating the web documentation, bugs that
>>I just verified version 6.3 (for example) has fixed.
>>
>>Even a non-standard location would be fine; we (= I ;-) can adjust 
>>the invocation from the gccadmin account.
>
>Looking into this now.

% makeinfo --version
texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.3

Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I had to take some *ahem* liberties with the Fedora 26 source rpm to get
this to build but I think it should be ok.  Please send email here if
there are problems.

cgf

Re: makeinfo update

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> % makeinfo --version
> texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.3

This seems to work just lovely, thank you! 

(Tested by running the script that nightly generates GCC's /onlinedocs 
and also verified the output, including that the issues I had seen with 
the old version of makeinfo have gone away.)

> I had to take some *ahem* liberties with the Fedora 26 source rpm 
> to get this to build but I think it should be ok.

;-)

Gerald