Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Armin K.
On 02/24/2013 04:03 AM, Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/23/13 20:13 CST: I still am not in favor of putting this in LFS-7.3. It's so much easier to omit the .info build completely and, of course, there is no sense at all in building it in Chapter 5. I really don't

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 08:13:36PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It turns out that the above warning does not actually stop the build like s/item/itemx/ does. Leave it with me - even if a larger patch does solve everything, I guess a workaround will still be needed in chapter 5 for building

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 23/02/2013 22:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:24:54AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Cheers, I've just been preparing one (without the three ChangeLog parts). Attached. I don't think that's enough. The first failure is in

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 23/02/2013 22:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : I'm inclined right now to leave things alone. The book will build now, just without the .info file. I suspect that the next gcc release, whether it will be 4.8 or 4.7.3, will address the issue. I tested one of the latest

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 23/02/2013 22:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : I'm inclined right now to leave things alone. The book will build now, just without the .info file. I suspect that the next gcc release, whether it will be 4.8 or 4.7.3, will address the issue. I tested

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 01:31:23PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 23/02/2013 22:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Good point. I didn't notice that they were there by default. If the .info files are present, then there is no need to build them at all.

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 01:31:23PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 23/02/2013 22:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Good point. I didn't notice that they were there by default. If the .info files are present, then there is no need to build

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 05:02:49PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Of course we are not building Fortran or Ada or Java, but with the commands I wrote earlier, I do have the following in /usr/share/info: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240866 Feb 24 19:13 cpp.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50231 Feb 24

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: For anyone who builds ada (really ? why ? :) in BLFS, I guess they are going to be missing the ada info files. I did some Ada coding once (1990s), but not for production. It has *very* strong type checking and is sometimes used where very high reliability is needed.

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/24/13 17:45 CST: Ken Moffat wrote: For anyone who builds ada (really ? why ? :) in BLFS, I guess they are going to be missing the ada info files. I did some Ada coding once (1990s), but not for production. It has *very* strong type checking and is

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/24/13 17:45 CST: Ken Moffat wrote: For anyone who builds ada (really ? why ? :) in BLFS, I guess they are going to be missing the ada info files. I did some Ada coding once (1990s), but not for production. It has *very* strong

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 06:45:26PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Nitpick: Its Ada, not ADA. Ada stands for Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, the first programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage. -- Bruce See :

Re: [lfs-dev] texinfo-5.0 breaks gcc in Chapter 6

2013-02-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: http://www.cvaieee.org/html/humor/programming_history.html 2008? Isn't it time for us to invent another language? Or should we leave it to some desperate Ph.D. student looking for a dissertation topic? :-) -- Bruce --