RE: gcc-3.1 configure on i686-pc-linux-gnu

["Gary Funck" <gary at intrepid dot com>]

In a similar vein, I'm seeing some complaints that relate to makeinfo when
trying to build GCC 3.1 for the SGI host.

Under SGI/Irix 6.5, configure (from scratch) complains as follows:

checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
configure: warning:
*** Makeinfo is too old. Info documentation will not be built.

I'm running: makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68.

Certainly, I can upgrade to a newer texinfo, but note the following comment
at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/gnu/makeinfo.README:


> Makeinfo is part of the texinfo distribution.
> Get texinfo-*.tar.gz.
>
> However, 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.

I think GCC 3.1 does come with its own *.info files, but the warning coming
out of configure might be confusing to new users who are trying to build GCC
from its source code?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Alexandre Oliva
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: Kenneth Hopping
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: gcc-3.1 configure on i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>
> On May 20, 2002, Kenneth Hopping <mrhiker@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
> > checking for modern makeinfo... (cached) no
>                                   ^^^^^^^^
>
> > I have the latest version of makeinfo installed:
> > # makeinfo --version
> > makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.2
>
> config.cache still holds information about the old texinfo.  You may
> want to remove this file and configure again.