On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Michael D Labriola wrote:
If anyone desires, they can give a list of packages which have issues
when using hosts and when using temp tools and building for the final
system when using Texinfo 5.1 and Automake 1.14. That would give a
better view of what the current situation is with those two packages
and our current build system.
Well, I know I ran into problems building autoconf w/ Texinfo 5.1. I
don't recall the exact error, but it was failing with texinfo related
errors while building docs. It should be noted, however, that I was
building autoconf v2.69 from git. Installing a copy of Texinfo
4.13a on
my host system fixed the problem.
Also, I've been able to build up through the end of Chapter 6 using
Automake v1.13.4, bootstrapping sources from git along the way w/out
any
serious problems. A couple minor tweaks were needed to bootstrap the
following packages from their respective git trees:
- pkg-config: (not pkg-config-lite) included glib code was still
using
AM_PROG_CC_STDC
- cloog: TESTS were using $srcdir, new automake was complaining
that it
was broken. Removing the variable seems to work, but I'm not sure
that
was the correct thing to do.
Hope this email gets to the list, I haven't posted in eons... and my
work
email is pretty sketchy. I can post pkg-config and/or cloog patches
from
home if anyone really wants them. You probably don't, since the
book uses
dist tarballs and still uses pkg-config-lite.
Greetings Michael,
Thanks for the input. I think for now it is a good idea to stick with
what we have.
Perhaps when we are ready to update automake and texinfo, that newer
releases will fix some of those problems.
Right now we have patch for binutils for hosts that are using Texinfo
5.x. It should be fixed in binutils 2.23.3 or later.
Sincerely,
William Harrington
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