Re: [PATCH] etc: import changes to texi2pod.pl from gcc
Project / Subsystem
binutils / etc
Date
2026-08-05
Proposer
Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Importing GCC's script risks introducing GCC-specific behaviors or dependencies into binutils.
- • Reverting GCC commit 386c402747d2bc6bad3e1bc2f9383d4d669576e0 might mask an underlying issue in GCC's texi2pod.pl that could surface later.
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- Re: [PATCH] etc: import changes to texi2pod.pl from gcc
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- etc: import changes to texi2pod.pl from gcc
- tldr
- Sync binutils' texi2pod.pl script with GCC's, adding @option and @table @option support.
- proposer
- Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
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- • Importing GCC's script risks introducing GCC-specific behaviors or dependencies into binutils.
- • Reverting GCC commit 386c402747d2bc6bad3e1bc2f9383d4d669576e0 might mask an underlying issue in GCC's texi2pod.pl that could surface later.
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- • documentation
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- • perl
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- date
- 2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
Re: [PATCH] etc: import changes to texi2pod.pl from gcc
Andrew Burgess proposes syncing binutils’ texi2pod.pl script with the version from GCC. This addresses limitations in formatting @option{—text} and @table @option, which were affecting GDB documentation cleanup. The imported GCC version required local adjustments to support —no-split, TARGET as a man page section, and to revert a GCC change that affected list formatting. Burgess also added trivial support for @table @option, which has been submitted to the GCC mailing list.