From 727bd12ea30debe9c17958508858960d5fa3d2b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Koenig Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:24:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] re PR bootstrap/82856 (--enable-maintainter-mode broken by incompatiblity of gcc's required automake and modern Perl) 2017-11-16 Thomas Koenig PR bootstrap/82856 * doc/install.texi: Document incompatibility of Perl >=5.6.26 with the required version of automake 1.11.6. From-SVN: r254845 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ gcc/doc/install.texi | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 541ec6e73e0..00b4172c8f7 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2017-11-16 Thomas Koenig + + PR bootstrap/82856 + * doc/install.texi: Document incompatibility of Perl >=5.6.26 + with the required version of automake 1.11.6. + 2017-11-16 Pat Haugen * rs6000/power9.md (power9fpdiv): New automaton and cpu_unit defined diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index b10c94af5ca..22e5731f6cd 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU @command{tar} if you have problems. -@item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later) +@item Perl version between 5.6.1 and 5.6.24 Necessary when targeting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++}, and not using @option{--disable-symvers}. @@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals. Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables. +Used by @command{automake}. + @end table Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required, @@ -420,6 +422,9 @@ the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.6. When regenerating a directory to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11 to the latest released version. +Note that @command{automake} 1.11.6 is incompatible with +@command{perl} version 5.6.26. + @item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later) Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}. -- 2.30.2