Difficulties building GFortran under SGI

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:28:33PM +0200, Philippe Schaffnit wrote:
> 
> I managed to compile GFortran under SGI Irix once month ago, but I don't
> seem to succeed any more... The whole system is not really up to date,
> so it could come from an outdated tool (ot simply an error on my
> part)... I keep getting the followin error:
> 
> 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
> 
> Can anyone suggest something? Turning off this makeinfo thing would also
> be accaptable for me...
> 

I suspect you need to update texinfo.  OTOH, this is dying on
building the manual.  If you don't need it, then do "make -k | tee logfile"
and check for "success" in building the actual compiler.
-- 
Steve