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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] use binutils-2.17 for bootstrap without texinfo
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:17:23
Message-Id: 20070420161707.GH949@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] use binutils-2.17 for bootstrap without texinfo by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On 20-04-2007 17:10:47 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > IIRC, the reason that we need '=sys-devel/binutils-2.16*' for bootstrap
5 > is that >=sys-devel/binutils-2.17 does not build if there is no texinfo
6 > available somewhere in PATH.
7 >
8 > Attached patch removes this requirement, although it seems to be
9 > intentional by binutils-maintainers according to comments around the
10 > patched Makefile-lines (seen in the patch).
11 >
12 > Comments ?
13
14 Yes. Let's just bootstrap with 2.16.1. It gets replaced after the
15 first emerge -e system anyway. texinfo is installed manual, so it
16 *should* be there.
17
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20 Fabian Groffen
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