Re: building makeinfo for android

[Karl Berry]

Hi Corbin,

Sorry for the delayed reply.

    Please tell me if I should submit this to a different one of the mailing

No, you sent it to the right place.  I've never been very familiar with
the cross-compiling niceties, basically just integrating patches from
others.  In any case, I think the bottom line is that you'll be a lot
better off waiting for a pretest (hopefully coming in the
not-impossibly-distant future), and/or building from the development
sources, rather than worrying about 4.13.  Which predates the existence
of Android.

But anyway, here are some brief replies:

   > Does the make flow not build libgnu.a automatically?

Sure, generally it does.  Why it didn't in your case is not immediately
apparent to me.

    > index.c:52: error: 'mbscasecmp' undeclared here (not in a function)

    > I don't see where mbscasecmp.h is being included by any file.  How
    > is this not normally a problem?

index.c includes mbswidth.h, which probably defined mbscasecmp at the
time, on the systems people tried anyway.  I don't recall that ever
being reported before.  I suspect it is due to gnulib rearrangements.

    > ./sys/time.h:23: error: stray '@' in program
    > What normally fills in those @PRAGMA@ lines in the gnulib files?

configure and/or make.  Again I suspect the gnulib update you did has
left you with a mix of old and new gnulib stuff.

    > I had to update which config.guess and config.sub I used, but I have had
    > to do that for just about everything I have built for Android.

Sure.  The config.* and other infrastructure files in 4.13 were current
as of the time of the 4.13 release, of course ...

Best,
Karl