changeset 410:add8c7af89ec

Binutils 2.18 needs a patch to build without makeinfo.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:07:31 -0500
parents b80a0ed1837d
children 7748d0b4b38d
files sources/patches/alt-binutils-2.18-screwinfo.patch
diffstat 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sources/patches/alt-binutils-2.18-screwinfo.patch	Sun Oct 12 03:07:31 2008 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+The binutils build notices that makeinfo is missing, but fails anyway, breaking
+the build.  Make it stop.
+
+The "info" file format is obsolete (similar to "gopher"), was never used
+by anyone but the FSF, and failed to even replace man pages (which are
+now available in HTML).
+
+--- binutils-2.18/missing	2005-07-13 20:24:56.000000000 -0500
++++ binutils-2.18/missing	2008-08-11 02:05:47.000000000 -0500
+@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
+     fi
+     # If the file does not exist, the user really needs makeinfo;
+     # let's fail without touching anything.
+-    test -f $file || exit 1
++#    test -f $file || exit 1
+     touch $file
+     ;;
+