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bug: configure don't know about 'GNU Makeinfo (Texinfo 3.9) 1.67'
- To: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- Subject: bug: configure don't know about 'GNU Makeinfo (Texinfo 3.9) 1.67'
- From: gcatenaz@g26.ethz.ch
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:27:37 +0100 (MET)
- >Category: configure.in in glibc
- >Class: sw-bug
- >Confidential: no
- >Environment: <machine, os, target, libraries (multiple lines)>
- >Organization: <organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
- >Originator: root
- >Priority: low
- >Release: libc-2.0.95
- >Severity: non-critical
- >Submitter-Id: net
- >Synopsis: Configure don't know about 'GNU Makeinfo (Texinfo 3.9) 1.67'
- SEND-PR: -*- send-pr -*-
- SEND-PR: Lines starting with `SEND-PR' will be removed automatically, as
- SEND-PR: will all comments (text enclosed in `<' and `>').
Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.1.131 #3 Wed Dec 16 12:17:30 CET 1998 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
Addons: crypt linuxthreads
Build CC: gcc
Compiler version: egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
Kernel headers: 2.1.131
Symbol versioning: yes
Build static: yes
Build shared: yes
Build pic-default: no
Build profile: yes
Build omitfp: yes
Build bounded: no
Build static-nss: no
Stdio: libio
>Description:
configure don't understand my makeinfo that come from linux RedHat 5.0
Output of makeinfo:
$ makeinfo --version
> GNU Makeinfo (Texinfo 3.9) 1.67
> Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
>How-To-Repeat:
<code/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)>
>Fix:
The script configure.in check a false header (GNU texinfo ...),
but my version write: GNU Makeinfo (Textinfo ...) ...
Warning: check also the case (texinfo -> Textinfo)
Change it!
from configure.in:
> AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, --version,
> [GNU texinfo \([0-9][0-9.]*\)],
> [3.1[1-9] | 3.[2-9][0-9]], MAKEINFO=: aux_missing=t)