Bug 111

Summary:	binutils 2.17 fails to build when texinfo >= 4.10
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Luke <luke_tucker>
Component:	Outdated package	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	buildroot, jacmet
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:	openSESE 11.1	Target:	mipsel
Build:	2009.02-rc4

Description Luke 2009-02-18 00:34:21 UTC

The configure script of binutils 2.17 tries to detect whether makeinfo is later than v4.4 however it does not take into account minor versions with double digits so v4.12 fails the test and stops binutils building even though the texinfo verion is valid.

Comment 1 Peter Korsgaard 2009-02-18 07:38:16 UTC

Ok, thanks for reporting. Why would you want to use binutils 2.17 instead of 2.19? Do you have the same issue with 2.19?

As you probably noticed, 2.17 is marked as deprecated and is scheduled to go away in the next release (2009.05).

Comment 2 Peter Korsgaard 2009-03-03 21:24:19 UTC

Fixed in r25512.

Comment 3 Luke 2009-03-07 13:11:03 UTC

The reason I was using binutils 2.17 is because I'm building applications for a reverse engineered platform (TViX DVICO 6500) and I am trying to keep everything as close to the toolchain used by the original developers even though 2.19 will probably work as you say.

Thanks for the fix.