Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

[arnold]

"David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I guess I didn't make myself clear. By default the vanilla source code is
> used during build inside mock, no modifications to it are currently there.
> So, when I try the build for 4.1.4, it uses the texinfo.tex shipped with
> gawk. There shouldn't be any way for mock to download some older
> texinfo.tex from somewhere else. The reason why it is older in the gawk.log
> is that I was trying to find out which commit started to cause this. I have
> found it, and I have put that log to pastebin. That's why it has older
> timestamp than current source tarball. :)

I see now.

> I'm actually starting to think that something has changed inside Texinfo
> ....
>
> I will look into this more tomorrow, and I will discuss this with our
> maintainer of Texinfo.

Great. Sounds like the right way to go.

> > I don't have the cycles to try to mess with SRPMs and so on, especially
> > as I don't run an RPM-based distribution.
> >
> No problem, I understand. :) I will try to find some fix/workaround, I
> will keep you updated if needed.

Thanks for understanding. I appreciate the effort and am glad that
4.1.4 will get into Fedora soon.

Thanks,

Arnold