Re: Error occurred in building newlib

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

daniel tian wrote:
> Hi Dave
>     I checked my system, the makeinfo was installed and the version is 4.13.
>     And I tried the newlib-1.16.0, it can be built successfully. But
> v1.15.0 can't.
>     So I missed something, thanks.

  Ah, I remember this.  There's a bad regex in an autoconf script somewhere
that checks the "makeinfo --version" number, and it only expects one digit
after the decimal place and started failing once makeinfo reached version
4.10.  Let me try a quick google, hang on:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-09/msg01271.html

  That should be very easy to backport to older versions of newlib's configure.ac.

    cheers,
      DaveK