bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

[Joachim Schmitz]

Unfortunately it isn't that easy on HP NonStop, I have to make quite a few
modifications to get it compiled.
Just found e.g. that in C99 mode it doesn't play along with my gmp-4.1.2 (so
I either need to use configure --without-gmp or, maybe, upgrade gmp),
whereas in C89 mode there are very many modifications to be done.

I didn't modify anything in the doc directory, only the configure script and
several files files in lib and src. Regardless it did rebuild
coreutils.info. I don't understand why, as in the tarball the .info is newer
than the .texi
Anyhow: I now have 2 fixes for that problem, I either remove these 3 "@/" or
upgrade to a more recent texinfo

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:33 PM
To: Joachim Schmitz
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

On 07/11/11 11:01, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> I didn't change the coreutils.texi, but 'make' though it needed to get 
> rebuild

I don't observe that behavior.  Can you show the steps that you can take,
from a fresh tarball, to reproduce the problem?  Here's how I tried to
reproduce it:

  export TZ=UTC0
  export LC_ALL=C
  wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.12.tar.gz
  tar xf coreutils-8.12.tar.gz
  cd coreutils-8.12
  ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info
  ./configure
  ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info
  make
  ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info

The 'make' did not attempt to run 'makeinfo', and each time 'ls' ran it
output the same information:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 764883 2011-04-26 14:10:24.000000000 +0000
doc/coreutils.info
  -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert     93 2011-04-26 14:10:10.000000000 +0000
doc/version.texi
  -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 546233 2011-04-25 08:55:27.000000000 +0000
doc/coreutils.texi

Could you please try the same recipe on your host?