Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-07 Thread Khem Raj
This fails to build with master-next (+ glibc 2.34 perhaps) https://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/587462/ On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:35 AM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Drop texinfo-4.12-zlib.patch as it completely lacks a description, > was added together with the original recipe without

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-06 Thread Khem Raj
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:39 AM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Once again: it was bundled with the initial recipe submission over 10 years > ago, without explanation or origin info, and not added later on. There was > never any indication anyone finds it useful. Probably someone just took all > of

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-06 Thread Alexander Kanavin
Once again: it was bundled with the initial recipe submission over 10 years ago, without explanation or origin info, and not added later on. There was never any indication anyone finds it useful. Probably someone just took all of Red Hat's patches without reviewing their utility. I am not porting

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-06 Thread Khem Raj
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:31 AM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Khem, please. What is the use case you are trying to justify? Who on earth > would want to install and read .info files on a target device (of the kind > where saving a few kilobytes matters, no less!), when it's a million times > mor

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-06 Thread Alexander Kanavin
Khem, please. What is the use case you are trying to justify? Who on earth would want to install and read .info files on a target device (of the kind where saving a few kilobytes matters, no less!), when it's a million times more convenient to do that on the host, or just open the same things hoste

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-05 Thread Khem Raj
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:35 AM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Drop texinfo-4.12-zlib.patch as it completely lacks a description, if it is not described then perhaps adding description to it will make things better, the patch is adding gz compressed info files which should reduce the size of these

[OE-core] [PATCH] texinfo: update 6.7 -> 6.8

2021-07-05 Thread Alexander Kanavin
Drop texinfo-4.12-zlib.patch as it completely lacks a description, was added together with the original recipe without an explanation in the commit message, and is difficult to rebase. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin --- .../texinfo/texinfo/texinfo-4.12-zlib.patch | 254 -- ..