Re: [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 20:46 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:45 AM
> > To: Slater, Joseph
> > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo
> > 
> > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 19:02 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> > > I believe we will use the host makeinfo, if that exists, so we
> > > won't automatically build texinfo-native.  But, if we are building
> > > it at the same time we are trying to run makeinfo, we might get
> > > "our" version instead of the host's, and our version might not be
> > > fully installed.  At least, that looks like what happened for the
> > > build failure this patch attempts to fix.
> > 
> > It would help to have that in the commit message.
> > 
> > Equally, does this really solve the problem or does it just move it
> > elsewhere as other applications probably use makeinfo too? :/
> 
> It does just move it elsewhere.  I don't know if texinfo would be basic
> enough to force it to build early (I'm not sure how to do that), or if
> we just expect packages that need it to depend on it.

Could we simply not install the makeinfo binary in texinfo-native and
always use the one from the host?

Cheers,

Richard