From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 4:48:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1B914EEE; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 04:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA02197; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:47:31 +1100 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:47:27 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Sheldon Hearn , marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, Munehiro Matsuda , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is texinfo needed for buildworld with -DNOINFO ? In-Reply-To: <20000118125239.B70394@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:31:18PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:14:19 +0900, Munehiro Matsuda wrote: > > > > > It seems that texinfo is compiled as cross-tools for buildworld. > > > But, is it really needed when -DNOINFO has been specified? > > > > It's arguable, so I'd go with the status quo -- always build and install > > the texinfo program, even if info files are not to be installed. The patch is a (small) optimization. It happens to avoid the bug when NOINFO is set for the whole world. > The problem is that `{bootstrap,cross}-tools' are always built with > -DNOINFO, and thus there is no way to determine wherher the user > explicitly requested -DNOINFO or not. Not a problem. Only Makefile.1 needs to know whether the user set it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message