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

Brendan Heading brendanheading at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 12:42:04 UTC 2015


> 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>

Tested host GDB clean rebuild for versions 7.8.x, 7.9.x and 7.10.x as
well as target GDB with and without BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_DEBUGGER - builds
fine in all cases.

Tested-by: Brendan Heading <brendanheading at gmail.com>

regards

Brendan



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