[Buildroot] [PATCHv3] gdb: prevent building the documentation

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 9 13:49:13 UTC 2015


Dear Vicente Olivert Riera,

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:12:19 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> Force gdb to not build the documentation. This way we avoid depending on
> host-texinfo. This is a temporary fix until upstream accepts a proposed
> --disable-docs configure option.
> 
> Since the documentation will not be build at all, we can remove the
> parts related to host-texinfo and MAKEINFO in the gdb.mk file.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/dd5/dd50ed99abb2c8495def826866b184030953f90e/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>

Maybe we could do a similar thing for the binutils package (which is
the only other user of the host-texinfo package), and then remove the
host-texinfo package altogether. That's obviously a completely separate
set of changes.

Thanks,

Thomas
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