I hope this will be fixed with: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053 and https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4054
Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Oct 2017, at 6:33 AM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Trying to build a fresh copy of GHC HEAD (at commit [1]) today failed > for me with this error: [2] > > /u/rgscott/Software/ghc4/libffi/build/missing: line 81: makeinfo: > command not found > WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system. > You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or > any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. > You might want to install the Texinfo package: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> > The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of > using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might > want to install GNU make: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/> > > On my Ubuntu machine, I was able to work around the issue by running: > > apt-get install texinfo > > But I'm not sure if the texinfo requirement was expected or an > unintended side effect of recent libffi changes. Do you know what's > happening here Moritz? > > Best, > Ryan S. > ----- > [1] > http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82 > [2] http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736 > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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