On Sep 30, 2007, at 20:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-10-01 10:59:48 +1000, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
I can confirm that I get the same problem trying to build port:gcc41. I haven't the time to read the upstream mailing list just now (thanks for the link), but, assuming that this is considered a bug in Texinfo that will be fixed, I'd suggest downgrading if the GCC maintainers don't intend to apply patches to older GCC release lines.
This is not a bug in texinfo, but in gcc's configure.ac file, which assumes that texinfo 4.11 is older than texinfo 4.4 (their regexp is buggy). The only way to fix the problem on the texinfo side would be to release texinfo 5.0.
In that case, whatever patches the gcc team has developed upstream should be applied to the existing gcc ports, until new releases of those gcc versions are made.