[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#1030387: Bug#1030387: gnustep-make: FTBFS with TeXInfo 7.0.x

Richard Frith-Macdonald richard at frithmacdonald.me.uk
Mon Feb 6 21:45:16 GMT 2023


Thanks.

FYI I implemented the suggested change in gnustep-make trunk in the git repository, after having tried it out with TeXinfo 5 and 6

> On 3 Feb 2023, at 21:29, Hilmar Preusse <hille42 at web.de> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> Source: gnustep-make
> Version: 2.9.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: ftbfs patch
> Usertags: texinfo70
> 
> the package fails to build from source when using TeX Info 7.0.x. This
> happens due to this change:
> 
> ,----
> | 7.0 (7 November 2022)
> | * texi2any
> |  . HTML output:
> |      . use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of
> |        manual_name or manual_name.html
> `----
> 
> The easiest solution is probably to add option "--output=$(OUTFILE)" to
> the "makeinfo" call in "Instance/Documentation/texi.make". A proposed
> patch is attached, please make sure it does not break compatibility to
> TeXInfo 6.8.
> 
> For now TeXInfo 7.0 is available in experimental. This bug is not RC
> for now, but after bookworm we'll upload TeXInfo 7.0 to unstable and
> the bug will become RC.
> 
> Hilmar
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> -- 
> sigmentation fault
> <texinfo70.txt>



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