[Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:14:49 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:


> I read in the archives that there have been multiple attempts to fix
> it differently, none of which were convincing, but I could not find
> details about these attempts or why they did not work.
> 
> I did find a patch by Romain that is rejected but I could not see why:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/595042/
> It tells gdb to use a different makeinfo command.

IIRC, what I didn't like with this approach is that it requires us to
keep a hacked-up version of the missing script in support/scripts/,
which I really didn't like.

> A similar trick is reported to work in the (still open) upstream bug
> for this issue:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18113
> Essentially, setting MAKEINFO=true when calling the configure script.
> 
> My question is now: what is not working in that approach?

I honestly don't remember exactly :-/

Feel free to try out yourself: create a minimal Debian chroot with
texinfo not installed, and try to build gdb (both tarball versions, and
versions fetched from Git, such as the ones for ARC and Microblaze.

Thomas
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