Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e.tar.xz

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Bernhard,

On 2019-03-05 4:57 p.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> Older makeinfo-4.13a seems to have problems with the addition of the
> macro '@{hashchar}' of commit v8.30-33-g2f438fa9f:

I believe some time ago (ca. 2017) there was a change to require
texinfo/makeinfo of at least version 6.1:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ddbe4b7a3756356bfb6af3ebd6ee39a5fe592da5

(makeinfo version 4.13a being fom 2008 - it's rather old)

I'm guessing you are building from tarball (not from git),
so "bootstrap.conf" is not checked for minimal versions -
but then "coreutils.info" should already be per-packaged
in the tarball - there should not be a need to rebuild it.

All that being said, the fix is easy (suggestion attached).

I only briefly tested it makeinfo 6.3 and makeinfo 4.12 - both seem
to work (or at least not fail - but I guess makeinfo 4.12 still
generates bad HTML, as mentioned in the git commit above).

comments welcomed,
 -assaf

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