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Re: Building gcc-4.1.1


"Bill McEnaney" <bill@rkirkpat.net> writes:

> You maybe remember that in another e-mail, I told you that my Sunblade
> 100 workstation keeps makeinfo in /usr/local/bin, gmake still insists
> that makeinfo is missing from my system.  Here's the message I got when
> I tried to rebuild gcc-4.1.1 earlier tonight.  Does the message help?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill
> 
> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
>          you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
>          indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
>          call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
>          DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
>          the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive site.

The top level configure script requires makeinfo to be at least a
certain version.  For 4.1.1, makeinfo needs to be version 4.2 or
higher.  Otherwise you will get the above message.  So the first thing
you should check is "makeinfo --version".

Ian


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