Toolchain for your toolchain

[justin]

My toolchain no longer builds in one click on a new system. I have found that I need to downgrade texinfo to a previous version (4.13) or I will get errors when running make.

I'd really like to have everything automated so that my toolchain builds in one click. So I can think of a couple options:

1. Have the build script downgrade necessary packages like texinfo
2. Have the build script compile texinfo from source and use that version

Option 2 seems preferable, but I have yet to find an elegant (non-hacky) way of implementing it. Has anyone else run into this problem and how have you solved it?

[sortie]

Uh. The texinfo problem should be fixed in binutils 2.24. Switch to that version instead.

[justin]

Thanks, but I also had to downgrade autoconf for some reason, so I'm looking for a more general solution to avoid random breakages of this type.