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?
Are you building from a release version, correct? Otherwise you do need makeinfo as explained by: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
Can you show how it fails also because this is not enough information really.
(In reply to comment #1) > Are you building from a release version, correct? As far as I know. It's version 4.1.0, downloaded yesterday or the day before. How can I tell? (I do want something more or less stable, since I'm using the compiler in production code.)
I am experiecing the same thing under Irix with freshly checked out sources. The system: SGI, IRIX64 blue1 6.5 04100802 IP27. All the tools are quite out of date... PS: is this related to 'Bug#: 27516 '? PPS: For me it fails with if [ xinfo = xinfo ]; then \ rm -f doc/gfortran.info-*; \ makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/doc/include -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran \ -o doc/gfortran.info /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi; \ else true; fi makeinfo: getwd: doc/gfortran.info, make[3]: *** [doc/gfortran.info] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/USER/philippe/Irix/Compilation/Temp/gcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage3-gcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/USER/philippe/Irix/Compilation/Temp' make[1]: *** [stage3-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/USER/philippe/Irix/Compilation/Temp' make: *** [all] Error 2
pr27516 is different in that pr27516 calls makeinfo even if there was no makeinfo detected. > PPS: For me it fails with [] > makeinfo: getwd: doc/gfortran.info, > make[3]: *** [doc/gfortran.info] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/USER/philippe/Irix/Compilation/Temp/gcc' can you please run that manually, like: $ cd $OBJDIR/gcc $ makeinfo -v --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 \ --split-size=5000000 -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/doc/include \ -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran \ -o doc/gfortran.info ; echo $?
Sure! It will just take some time, as I've cleaned-up my objects in between (I was getting reading to give it another go with an up-to-date TexInfo...). I hope to be able to post that in a few hours (as soon as it's back there...).
Here's what I get: makeinfo -v --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/doc/include -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran -o doc/gfortran.info ; echo $? makeinfo: missing file argument. Try `makeinfo --help' for more information. 1 The whole thing probably happens because of: makeinfo --version makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.5 If configure could warn about it, it would be nice... (Obviously, I have no idea how complicated it would be...). Also a switch to disable it could be handy (same remark...). Thanks!
I forgot the texi file.. makeinfo -v --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/doc/include -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran -o doc/gfortran.info \ /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi; echo $? Please retry. > Also a switch to disable it could be handy (same remark...). You should be able to pass MAKEINFO=/bin/false to configure to make it explicit that makeinfo is not available on your machine.
Sorry it took me so long, but I had clobbered my objects (...), and then I tried to post it, but somehow it doesn't show: sorry if comes twice... I would guess it's not obviously wrong.... makeinfo -v --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/doc/include -I /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran -o doc/gfortran.info /USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi ; echo $ makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.5 Making info file `doc/gfortran.info' from `/USER/philippe/Irix/Gcc_Sources/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi'. @include `gcc-common.texi' @include `gcc-vers.texi' Formatting node Top... Formatting node Getting Started... Formatting node GNU Fortran and GCC... Formatting node GNU Fortran and G77... @include `invoke.texi' Formatting node Invoking GNU Fortran... Formatting node Option Summary... Formatting node Fortran Dialect Options... Formatting node Warning Options... Formatting node Debugging Options... 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Formatting node Fortran 2003 status... @include `gpl.texi' Formatting node Copying... @include `fdl.texi' Formatting node GNU Free Documentation License... @include `funding.texi' Formatting node Funding... Formatting node Index... makeinfo: getwd: doc/gfortran.info, $
I think the issue was info/.texi files were not generated in that package. Does this work in a newer release of GCC?
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