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Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/binutils.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/texinfo.xml | 15 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml index 24770bb17..b747c97ce 100644 --- a/chapter06/binutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen> <para>This issue needs to be resolved before running the test suites for Binutils and GCC.</para> + <para>Binutils does not recognize versions of Texinfo newer than 4.9. Fix + this issue by applying the following patch:</para> + +<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&binutils-configure-patch;</userinput></screen> + <para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para> diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml index 69916295a..447580764 100644 --- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml +++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml @@ -41,19 +41,6 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Texinfo</title> - <para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as that - a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and - bytes in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail - in UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid by falling back - to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen> - - <para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink - attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</userinput></screen> - <para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> @@ -64,7 +51,7 @@ <para>To test the results, issue:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen> <para>Install the package:</para> |