Re: Making Texinfo XS parser the default?

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:33:49PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> In additon to what Hans-Bernhard wrote, in Debian there are other
> breakages, too:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gcc-7&arch=s390x&ver=7.4.0-14&stamp=1569999188&raw=0
> 
> gdc.texi:78: warning: undefined flag: version-GCC (possibly involving
> @versionsubtitle)
> gdc.texi:188: warning: @item should not appear in @table
> gdc.texi:188: @item outside of table or list
> make[5]: *** [../../src/gcc/d/Make-lang.in:102: doc/gdc.info] Error 1
> make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> 
> I have disabled the XS parser again since it make other packages FTBFS,
> which is not really acceptable.
> 
> I guess there is a bit more work to be done.

I've fixed processing as.texi in binutils.  I'm trying to look at the 
gcc manuals now.

Do you know what other manuals broke?  I saw 
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg1704173.html 
so Octave is one.

I wonder if there any way of testing lots of Texinfo manuals 
automatically.

It's often difficult to download a package and just build the 
documentation.  For example, I downloaded gcc-7.4.0 and tried to run 
./configure but I didn't have all the dependencies.  I tried running 
"texi2any" on gfortran.texi and there was a missing file 
"gcc-common.texi".  I had to create another file "gcc-vers.texi' myself 
and run "texi2any -I   ../../gcc/doc/include gfortran.texi".  There
are similar difficulties with other manuals.