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gcc man page is broken

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Message #26 received at 24069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 24069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Subject: Re: bug#24069: [PATCHv2] Re: bug#24069: gcc man page is broken
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:15:10 -0400

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Hello,

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:
>
>> I believe this would cause gcc-5 to be rebuilt, which would cause a
>> world rebuild, so for the moment we also need a native-inputs entry for
>> gcc-5 making sure that nothing changes, ie: that we're only using
>> texinfo there, preferably with a note that it should be changed in the
>> future.  Also, you should take a look at gnu/packages/commencement and
>> make sure that we're not adding perl as a native-input for gcc-boot0 or
>> for libstdc++, wherever that happens to live (I don't remember off
>> hand).
>
> I think this should go to ‘core-updates’.
>
>> I assume it is OK for us to build the man pages for gcc-final (if it
>> happens) since this is the gcc used for actually building packages, and
>> I believe the one pulled in for gcc-toolchain.
>
> More precisely, building man pages for ‘gcc-boot0’ is pointless and
> possibly adds Perl on the graph for no good reason.  So if we can
> arrange to just have man pages in ‘gcc-final’, we’re good.
>
> Efraim, could you check whether that works for ‘core-updates’?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I believe this is what is accomplished by the attached patch v3. Thanks
to Efraim for the points raised. It turned out that the stack overflow I
was getting attempting to test the previous version was caused by a
circular dependency that was introduced by gcc-boot0 inheriting
perl. This is now fixed.

I spent the last couple hours rebuilding gcc but it failed due to lack
of space on my side... Retrying now but it'll take a few hours before I
can confirm that it works as intended.

Thank you both!

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