This may actually be several distinct minor bugs. On my Sparc machine, I have what I think is a strang version of makeinfo, installed by TeX (or at least, in the tex tree) -- makeinfo --version returns: makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68 This results in the compiler system (most specifically fastjar) failing to build.
I will apply the obvious fix in my case -- install a correct version of makeinfo from sources. However... The makeinfo pages say that "all GNU distributions should come with prebuilt info files, thus makeinfo should not be needed. If you notice a distribution that does not come with *.info files, please report it as a bug." Whence this bug report. Two possible improvements while I'm at it: there really could be an error message (or a warning) in configure, where you check the version, and (more a question) is there a simple way to build without building the documentation -- I've already got it from the Linux build anyway? -- Summary: Fails to build because of funny version of makeinfo Product: gcc Version: 4.1.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jkanze at cheuvreux dot com GCC build triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 GCC host triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 GCC target triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27133