[gobolinux-users] Failed to compile binutils (2.18)

[giamby at infinito.it]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:28:16 +0100
  Thomas Queste <tqueste at free.fr> wrote:
>> As make reports error, this is propagated to the earlier 
>>calls, resulting in
>> an final error. Do you have Texinfo installed? If you 
>>do, could you post more
>>  from the log?
> 
> Yes, I updated texinfo yesterday to 4.11 :
>  gobo at Gobo ~]ls /Programs/Texinfo/
>  4.11/     4.8a/     Current@
> 
> Longer from the log :
> ---------------------------
> Making info in doc
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd/doc'
> restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
>        rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
>        if (/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/missing 
>makeinfo
> --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --version) 
>>/dev/null 2>&1; then \
>          for f in bfd.info bfd.info-[0-9] 
>bfd.info-[0-9][0-9] bfd.i[0-9]
> bfd.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
>            if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; 
>restore=mv; else :; fi; \
>          done; \
>        else :; fi && \
>        if /Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/missing 
>makeinfo
> --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000   -I
> /Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/./bfd/doc \
>         -o bfd.info `test -f 'bfd.texinfo' || echo
> '/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/./bfd/doc/'`bfd.texinfo; 
>\
>        then \
>          rc=0; \
>        else \
>          rc=$?; \
>          $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./bfd.info" | sed 
>'s|[^/]*$||'`; \
>        fi; \
>        rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You 
>should only need it if
>         you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or 
>any other file
>         indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. 
> The spurious
>         call might also be the consequence of using a 
>buggy `make' (AIX,
>         DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the 
>`Texinfo' package or
>         the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any 
>GNU archive site.
> make[3]: *** [bfd.info] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd/doc'
> Making info in po
> make[3]: Entering directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd/po'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd/po'
> make[3]: Entering directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd'
> make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build/bfd'
> make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>`/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/_build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> Compile: Build process failed.
> ---------------------------
> 
> (One of my message is waiting the moderator as it is too 
>big (it contains two
> makefiles)).
> 

I think the problem is in the 
"/Files/Compile/Sources/binutils-2.18/missing makeinfo", 
it should be just "makeinfo".
As workaround change this in the makefiles and continue 
launching make manually.
May be that the new texinfo is not correctly recognized by 
the configure scripts ? Could you do a test by using the 
old one ?

G.

 
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