Re: Compiling gcc-4.1.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu machines

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

On 01/19/2011 05:08 PM, Olumide wrote:
> On 19/01/2011 16:39, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > On 19/01/2011 16:21, Ian Lance Taylor 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.
> >
> > I'd just install the packages.
> >
> > You'll have to do a clean rebuild again.
>
> I've done a fresh build, this time with the build directory outside the source but I'm getting the same error. Here's a much longer error dump. BTW, what am I missing? makeinfo, Texinfo or both or something else?
>
> 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.

You keep not telling us things.

So, does "makeinfo" do anything?

Andrew.