Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 149430
makeinfo dies - have better patch than in current src rpm
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
Description of problem: makeinfo dies when building certain files. This is evident for me when building a patched (for use with bdm) copy of gdb.6.1. Whatever additions are made into the gdb.texinfo file, seem to expose this bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.7-5 How reproducible: Build patched version of gdb with stock Fedora 3 version of texinfo on board. You get the cryptic error: gdb.info: Bad address and the build aborts. Now patch and rebuild texinfo with the patch from the URL referenced above. Use this patch INSTEAD of the patch file: texinfo-fix.patch which is part of the current source rpm. The patch I suggest modifies the same line (in a different way) along with a bunch of other changes. The patched makeinfo will now work without crashing on the same gdb.texinfo file. Steps to Reproduce: 1. download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb-6.1.tar.gz 2. download attached bdm patch for gdb (used to expose bug) 3. tar xzvf gdb-6.1.tar.gz 4. cd gdb-6.1 5. patch -p1 <gdb-6.1-bdm-m68k.patch 6. cd .. 7. mkdir gdb-build 8. cd gdb-build 9. ../gdb-6.1/configure 10. make info Actual results: Somewhere in the build, makeinfo gives error: Bad address and exits prematuresly Expected results: Build should complete successfully Additional info:
Created attachment 111311 [details] Not a patch for texinfo -- just to demonstrate bug
Created attachment 111312 [details] The texinfo patch formatted and ready to use in place of texinfo-fix.patch Here is the referenced patch (which I applied by hand in order to undo texinfo-fix.patch) and then re-diffed in a format ready to drop into the source rpm if wanted.
Does this happen with the texinfo in rawhide (4.8)?
FC 3 now contains texinfo-4.8-2.2, which includes changes similar to your patch. Thanks for your report.