Bug#889631: Bug#889647: mpfr 4.0 branch fails to build with texinfo.tex from automake
On 2018-02-05 23:34:18 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > In case this was not clear, I meant that in addition to the texinfo
> > correction, something else needs to be done in another package,
> > either in automake or in mpfr4, to that the right texinfo.tex file
>
> automake is the culprit. Shipping and ancient, pre-historic texinfo.tex
> is simply wrong.
Yes. To fix the automake issue, I would see 2 possibilities:
1. The simpler solution: patch texinfo.tex there directly, but this
can mean that it can be out-of-sync with texinfo.
2. The cleaner solution: provide a symlink to the texinfo.tex file
from texinfo (like what it does fto use config.guess and config.sub
from autotools-dev) and depend on texinfo. This would add a dependency
but I suspect that most software that uses GNU Automake also uses
Texinfo, so that in practice, this may not make a difference.
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