[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] package/gdb: host-texinfo needed for full gdb

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 09-09-15 00:09, Romain Naour wrote:
> Hi Arnout, All,
> 
> Le 08/09/2015 23:50, Arnout Vandecappelle a écrit :
>> On 08-09-15 21:27, Brendan Heading wrote:
>>> Fixes :
>>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/dd5/dd50ed99abb2c8495def826866b184030953f90e/
>>
>>  So, we now have three versions to fix this:
>>
>> Romain patches gdb to avoid recursing in the doc directory [1][2]
>> Vicente does the same but with a sed instead of patch [3].
>> Brendan adds host-texinfo to dependencies (this patch) [4].
>>
>>  Which one do we choose?
>>
>>  host-texinfo takes a bit of time to build because it also depends on
>> host-ncurses, but it's not a huge problem.
>>
>>  The best solution is adding an upstreamable --disable-doc, but that will take a
>> bit of work still (esp. because we can't easily autoreconfigure).
> 
> I sent a patch to gdb mailing list to add --disable-docs option but it's not
> tested since I can't regenerate the configure script locally.
> 
> See https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-09/msg00073.html
> 
> I'm waiting for a review.
> 
>>
>>  So for me Brendan's patch is fine. What do the others think?
> 
> I would prefer to avoid host-texinfo dependency if possible.

 I agree, but perhaps we can commit Brendan's patch until the --disable-docs
option is there.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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