Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v3 12/16] travis/osx: silent texinfo warnings

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 21:34, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hey Alex, Peter, what do you think about this patch?
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:27 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >   $ make info
> >     GEN     qemu-doc.html
> >   qemu-doc.texi:8: warning: unrecognized encoding name `UTF-8'.
> >     GEN     qemu-doc.txt
> >   qemu-doc.texi:8: warning: unrecognized encoding name `UTF-8'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  .travis.yml | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> > index 4bf69b0116..24f62fb7cf 100644
> > --- a/.travis.yml
> > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > @@ -74,9 +74,11 @@ git:
> >    # we want to do this ourselves
> >    submodules: false
> >  before_install:
> > +  # silent texinfo warnings 
> > (https://github.com/xiaohanyu/oh-my-emacs/blob/c664894e2f1c1cb0f95a9f2da88d41b00f190856/core/ome-basic.org#homebrew)
> >    - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]; then
> >          brew update ;
> > -        brew install libffi gettext glib pixman ;
> > +        brew install libffi gettext glib pixman texinfo ;
> > +        brew link texinfo --force ;
> >      fi

The commit message is a bit lacking in detail about how it's
fixing things. IIRC this message is caused because the stock
OSX texinfo is too old, so installing a newer version via
brew makes sense. But what does the "brew link" command do?

thanks
-- PMM