On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:07:47AM -0800, Qrux wrote:
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
>> make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
>> make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/binutils-build'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Even if this is acceptable, it's rather disconcerting. Could a patch be
>> made to avoid descending into bfd, etc?
>
> It isn't acceptable. I've never seen anything like this. The
> report of 'Error 1' without an actual error message makes me wonder
> if you caught stdout in a file but didn't catch stderr ?
No--this was straight cut-and-paste from console output. But, I'm running with
"-j 4", so maybe output is garbled...
> ...Did you fail to install texinfo in chapter 5 ? A quick test for
> that is to try running 'info' or 'info libc'.
Ken, thanks for that idea; it was prescient. Texinfo opened an interesting can
of worms...
I'd been writing a wrapper script which untars each package and does some
boilerplate with setup and clean-up. I was using this in my script:
tar mxf <package>
It turns out, this blows up the texinfo 'make install'. The compile works.
But the install fails when using 'm' with tar. For the curious, I wanted to
avoid "extracting file modified time" (otherwise known as --touch), because I
was experimenting with timestamp-based "package management". When I compiled
by hand, I was just auto-piloting the "normal" invocation:
tar xf <package>
which worked perfectly. I'm not sure what the root cause of the issue with the
'm' switch is...and how it would mess up an install in the way it did.
* * *
Regarding the earlier issue, I'm still working on getting back to the
post-chroot binutils build--now that I've resolved the untar issue with
texinfo).
Thanks again for the idea.
Q
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