[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] texinfo: new host package

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

Dear Vivien Didelot,

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:43:32 -0400 (EDT), Vivien Didelot wrote:

> Just curious, isn't possible for the Crosstool-NG build to disable the
> doc, with something like Gustavo did here for GCC:
> 
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=62322acb2ce186d544ab21fe253ccc8561a68a48

Yes, it should be possible. Normally, we enabled the "Remove
documentation" option from Crosstool-NG, which should tell Crosstool-NG
to not build the documentation. But in practice, Crosstool-NG
configure script still wants a makeinfo program. Even if you fake it by
passing /bin/true as the makeinfo program, then the build process of
binutils fails during the construction of its info pages. So it looks
like Crosstool-NG does not disable entirely the generation of
documentation, or something else is going one.

Introducing this texinfo package is only a short-term solution, until
the proper way of disabling the documentation generation in
Crosstool-NG is found.

Best regards,

Thomas
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