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authorThomas Koenig <tkoenig@gcc.gnu.org>2017-11-16 20:24:00 +0000
committerThomas Koenig <tkoenig@gcc.gnu.org>2017-11-16 20:24:00 +0000
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re PR bootstrap/82856 (--enable-maintainter-mode broken by incompatiblity of gcc's required automake and modern Perl)
2017-11-16 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@gcc.gnu.org> PR bootstrap/82856 * doc/install.texi: Document incompatibility of Perl >=5.6.26 with the required version of automake 1.11.6. From-SVN: r254845
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 541ec6e..00b4172 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-11-16 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@gcc.gnu.org>
+
+ PR bootstrap/82856
+ * doc/install.texi: Document incompatibility of Perl >=5.6.26
+ with the required version of automake 1.11.6.
+
2017-11-16 Pat Haugen <pthaugen@us.ibm.com>
* rs6000/power9.md (power9fpdiv): New automaton and cpu_unit defined
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index b10c94a..22e5731 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
@command{tar} if you have problems.
-@item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
+@item Perl version between 5.6.1 and 5.6.24
Necessary when targeting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++},
and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
+Used by @command{automake}.
+
@end table
Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required,
@@ -420,6 +422,9 @@ the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.6. When regenerating a directory
to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11
to the latest released version.
+Note that @command{automake} 1.11.6 is incompatible with
+@command{perl} version 5.6.26.
+
@item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.