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Re: [COMMITTED] Remove references to non-existent content items in install.texi
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:14:45 +1000
- Subject: Re: [COMMITTED] Remove references to non-existent content items in install.texi
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On 28/09/13 09:09, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> This fixes the regeneration of the INSTALL file with texinfo-5.x,
>> although using this version will result in lots of formatting changes
>> to the generated INSTALL file (mainly quote and url formatting).
>
> This breaks "make install" for me with makeinfo 4.13. I get a sequence of
> errors starting with:
>
> LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P /home/jsm28/tmp/tmpdir/glibc/build-64/manual/ --output=/home/jsm28/tmp/tmpdir/glibc/build-64/manual/libc.info libc.texinfo
> /home/jsm28/tmp/tmpdir/glibc/libc/manual//header.texi:1: Next reference to nonexistent node `Installation' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
> [...]
> makeinfo: Removing output file `/home/jsm28/tmp/tmpdir/glibc/build-64/manual/libc.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
> make[2]: *** [/home/jsm28/tmp/tmpdir/glibc/build-64/manual/libc.info] Error 1
>
Sorry. The same error exists with texinfo 5.2 - and I was sure I had
tested both.
I believe the fix is still correct, but it exposes other issues in the
node references. I have reverted the change until I can take a better
look at it and properly fix the issue.
Allan