[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Nov 12 19:45:06 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 19:02 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> I believe we will use the host makeinfo, if that exists, so we
> won't automatically build texinfo-native.  But, if we are building
> it at the same time we are trying to run makeinfo, we might get
> "our" version instead of the host's, and our version might not be
> fully installed.  At least, that looks like what happened for the
> build failure this patch attempts to fix.

It would help to have that in the commit message.

Equally, does this really solve the problem or does it just move it
elsewhere as other applications probably use makeinfo too? :/

Cheers,

Richard




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