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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 9 15:14:26 UTC 2015


Dear Vicente Olivert Riera,

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:49:07 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:

> > But in any case, if host-texinfo is no longer needed to build the ARC
> > binutils, then indeed we can drop the host-texinfo dependency, and drop
> > the host-texinfo package as well.
> 
> Maybe this is the reason why host-texinfo is no longer needed:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=bba33ab1e0f7d2ebd8f8435f92ed12e2a3c558a4

Very possible indeed. But that would only fix the problem for release
tarballs, as the commit log suggests. In binutils, we were depending on
host-texinfo only for ARC, because for ARC, we are pulling the binutils
sources from git, not from a release tarball.

Best regards,

Thomas
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