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Re: Compiling gcc-4.1.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu machines
On 19 January 2011 16:43, Cedric Roux wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 05:37 PM, Olumide wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> try to start all over from scratch, you did a "make distclean" right?
> unzip the gcc tar.gz again and start from that clean point
> (just a guess, I had that error many times with many software out there
> because of a make distclean)
>
Also, it looks as though maybe you're building inside the gcc source tree:
/transfer/gcc412/gcc-4.1.2/build
Don't do that - the instructions you linked to correctly say to create
a directory next to the source tree and build in there.