Re: Texinfo compile failure on IRIX 6.5 (was: Re: failure on IRIX 6.5)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:20:46AM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> [+cc bug-automake]
> 
> Hi Patrice, Karl.
> 
> On 11/23/2012 03:17 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:52:50PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
> >>     info do not compile on IRIX 6.5.  There is an error linked with the
> >>     call of depcomp.
> >>
> What is the dependency style determined by configure?  You might
> grep for the line "dependency style" in config.log to find out.

It was 'sgi'.

> Is the failure still present if you run configure with the
> "--disable-dependency-tracking" option?

No, it is not present anymore.

> Has been IRIX discontinued?  I wasn't aware of that.  If it has, we
> might indeed want to remove support from it from the depcomp script
> (that can be done for Automake 1.14).

It is supported until december 2013
http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html

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Pat