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<a href="https://gitlab.com/ametzler">Andreas Metzler</a> created an issue: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/-/issues/57">#57</a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0 0 1rem;" align="initial">Hello,
4.2.21 fails to build on make check after autoreconf if texinfo is not installed:</p>
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<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext"> You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext"> any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext"> You might want to install the Texinfo package:</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext"> <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/></span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext"> The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext"> using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext"> want to install GNU make:</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext"> <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/></span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext">make[3]: *** [Makefile:1765: libtasn1.info] Error 127</span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0 0 1rem;" align="initial">I think this is the reason why, libtasn1.texi mtime is set to 0 by ./configure.</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0;">(sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/libtasn1$ ls -l doc/libtasn1.texi ; head doc/version.texi ; autoreconf ; ls -l doc/libtasn1.texi ; head doc/version.texi ; ./configure > /dev/null 2>&1 ; ls -l doc/libtasn1.texi ; head doc/version.texi</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">-rw-r--r-- 1 ametzler ametzler 10949 Jan 8 12:19 doc/libtasn1.texi</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED 8 January 2026</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2026</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set EDITION 4.21.0</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set VERSION 4.21.0</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext">-rw-r--r-- 1 ametzler ametzler 10949 Jan 8 12:19 doc/libtasn1.texi</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED 8 January 2026</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2026</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set EDITION 4.21.0</span>
<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set VERSION 4.21.0</span>
<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="plaintext">-rw-r--r-- 1 ametzler ametzler 10949 Jan 1 1970 doc/libtasn1.texi</span>
<span id="LC13" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED 8 January 2026</span>
<span id="LC14" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2026</span>
<span id="LC15" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set EDITION 4.21.0</span>
<span id="LC16" class="line" lang="plaintext">@set VERSION 4.21.0</span>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0 0 1rem;" align="initial">At build time this code in doc/Makefile is triggered because the mtime recorded in version.texi does not match the relal mtime of libtasn1.texi:</p>
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<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">$(srcdir)/stamp-vti: libtasn1.texi $(top_srcdir)/configure</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext"> @(dir=.; test -f ./libtasn1.texi || dir=$(srcdir); \</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext"> set `$(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/mdate-sh $$dir/libtasn1.texi`; \</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext"> echo "@set UPDATED $$1 $$2 $$3"; \</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext"> echo "@set UPDATED-MONTH $$2 $$3"; \</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext"> echo "@set EDITION $(VERSION)"; \</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext"> echo "@set VERSION $(VERSION)") > vti.tmp$$$$ && \</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext"> (cmp -s vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi \</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext"> || (echo "Updating $(srcdir)/version.texi" && \</span>
<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="plaintext"> cp vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi.tmp$$$$ && \</span>
<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="plaintext"> mv $(srcdir)/version.texi.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi)) && \</span>
<span id="LC13" class="line" lang="plaintext"> rm -f vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi.$$$$</span>
<span id="LC14" class="line" lang="plaintext"> @cp $(srcdir)/version.texi $@</span>
<span id="LC15" class="line" lang="plaintext"></span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0 0 1rem;" align="initial">Now version.texi is newer than libtasn1.info and the latter is out of date and make thinks it needs to be rebuilt.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0 0 1rem;" align="initial">The code for settig the wrong time-stamp is in configure.ac</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0;">st_help2man=0</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">st_touch=197001010000.00</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">AC_MSG_CHECKING([for timestamps of last git commit])</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext">if test -e "$srcdir"/.git && command -v git > /dev/null; then</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext"> if tmp=$(git log -1 --format=%cd --date=unix); then</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext"> st_help2man="$tmp"</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext"> fi</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext"> if tmp=$(env TZ=UTC0 git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format-local:%Y%m%d%H%M.%S); then</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext"> st_touch="$tmp"</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext"> fi</span>
<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="plaintext">fi</span>
<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="plaintext">AC_SUBST(SOURCETIME_HELP2MAN, "${SOURCETIME_HELP2MAN:-$st_help2man}")</span>
<span id="LC13" class="line" lang="plaintext">AC_MSG_RESULT(help2man $SOURCETIME_HELP2MAN touch $st_touch)</span>
<span id="LC14" class="line" lang="plaintext">env TZ=UTC0 \</span>
<span id="LC15" class="line" lang="plaintext"> touch -m -t "$st_touch" \</span>
<span id="LC16" class="line" lang="plaintext"> "$srcdir"/NEWS.md "$srcdir"/doc/$PACKAGE.texi</span>
<span id="LC17" class="line" lang="plaintext"></span></code></pre>
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