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Re: Problems with snapshot 20000412


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Hello,

The automake-000227.tar.bz2 snapshot contains the bug fixed by the
patch:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/automake/automake.in.diff?r1=1.652&r2=1.653&cvsroot=automake

The bug causes bfd/doc/Makefile.in to contain bogus lines like:

.texi.dvi:
        TEXINPUTS=$(top_srcdir)/../texinfo/texinfo.tex:$$TEXINPUTS \
          MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) -I $(srcdir)' $(TEXI2DVI) $<

(the ``/texinfo.tex'' shouldn't be there).  This in turn (as Eli notes
:-) leads to a failed (when there is no pre-installed texinfo.tex) or
broken (when there is) build.

Could I suggest an update to the automake snapshot.  Then a fixed
bfd/doc/Makefile.in can be re-generated (gdb-5.0 and binutils-N.NN
branches + trunk).

	enjoy,
		Andrew

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't appear to affect the build
> >
> > Really?  Did you try renaming your system-wide texinfo.tex (somewhere
> > in the TeX installation tree)?
> 
> Hmm, ok, yes point taken :-)
> 
> > The special setting of TEXINPUTS before invoking TeX-related commands
> > is there to make sure that the manual is produced using the specific
> > version of texinfo.tex that was used by the maintainer(s), because
> > another version of texinfo.tex might produce incorrect results or even
> > fail.  If you have the same or compatible version of texinfo.tex in
> > another place where TeX can find it, you won't see the problems caused
> > by TEXINPUTS being set incorrectly.
> 
> Its already been reported:
> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-automake/1999/msg00007.html
> 
> and the follow up:
> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-automake/1999/msg00019.html
> 
> claims:
> 
> > > TEXINPUTS should be a list of directories.
> >
> > Yup, this has been fixed in the CVS tree for quite some time.
> 
> I'll double check my automake tools.
> 
>         Andrew

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