On 2008-10-28, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been using the same build script to build msp430 gcc
> toolchains for 5 years, but it recently stopped working because
> makeinfo is "missing":
>
> mkdir -p -- ./libiberty
> Configuring in ./libiberty
> configure: creating cache ./config.cache
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for makeinfo... /home/grante//toolchain/src/binutils-2.17/missing
> makeinfo --split-$
> configure: WARNING:
> *** Makeinfo is missing. Info documentation will not be built.
> checking for perl... perl
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Then later the "make install" fails because the .info files are missing.
>
> Except makeinfo _isn't_ missing:
>
> $ which makeinfo
> /usr/bin/makeinfo
>
> $ makeinfo --version
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11
It appears that texinfo 4.11 is broken/incompatible with older
configure scripts. I rolled texinfo back to 4.8, and it's
building OK.
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