Re: patch for gdb.texinfo

[Jason Molenda <jsm at cygnus dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:28:58PM -0800, J.T. Conklin wrote:

> However, a modified texinfo-3.2 is still distributed in GDB snapshots.
> I managed to overwrite texinfo-4.0 on my system after installing a GDB
> snapshot.  I mentioned this at the time, hoping that texinfo would be
> dropped from snapshots.  Ultimately, I changed my import procedure to
> remove texinfo before importing new snapshots into my own repository.

It's still there, but I changed the Makefiles so they wouldn't try to
install it any more.  I probably didn't tell anyone about this change.

> I notice that the binutils repository on sourceware only contains
> texinfo.tex in it's texinfo directory.  Now that the binutils and GDB
> repositories are being merged, perhaps this problem will go away.  I
> hope that the reverse is not true and that binutils is not similarly
> tainted with a obsolete texinfo distribution.

Texinfo will go away when the repositories are merged.

mmalloc is within spitting distance of going away as well, but I'll
restrain myself on that one. :-)

Jason
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