Re: HP-UX 11 build issues with texinfo 5.0

[Karl Berry]

Hi Richard,

    * gnulib/lib/xalloc.h:

Forwarded to gnulib, as you saw.

      at line 28 of info/info-utils.c:
    #ifdef __hpux
    #define va_copy(ap1,ap2) memcpy((&ap1),(&ap2),sizeof(va_list))
    #endif

Ok, installed.

    export PATH=/usr/contrib/bin:$PATH

It seems like this is better to continue to be done by you.  In general
we can't guess what PATH someone might need, so hardwiring something
into the test script doesn't seem right to me.

    * Non-gcc compilers, including HP's ANSI C, probably won't like the
      TEXINFO_PRINTFLIKE() macro definition in system.h, so for non-gcc
      systems, I defined it to be nothing (line 232):

Yes, thanks.  Installed.

    * GNU diff-only flags (-a, -U, -u, --exclude=) were used in the following
      scripts and were removed to improve portability for non-GNU diff:

Can you send the patch, please?

I don't think -u is only GNU diff, but anyway, losing it doesn't sound
problematic.  Losing -a might be, though, since GNU diff painfully
considers some files binary otherwise.  Have to look at what the
alternatives are.

At any rate, thanks for all the reports.

Karl