[Bug other/88141] New: Issues with texinfo when building GCC r266351 in MSYS2

[jmm4077 at rit dot edu]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88141

            Bug ID: 88141
           Summary: Issues with texinfo when building GCC r266351 in MSYS2
           Product: gcc
           Version: 9.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: jmm4077 at rit dot edu
  Target Milestone: ---
              Host: x86_64-w64-mingw32
            Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32
             Build: x86_64-w64-mingw32

I'm experiencing a problem with texinfo while attempting to build the latest
trunk revision of GCC in MSYS2 (r266351 at the time of writing this report). I
am building GCC with the latest release versions of GMP, MPC, MPFR, and ISL
(6.1.2, 1.1.0, 4.0.1, and 0.20, respectively).

This is the configure command I'm using for GCC:

../src/configure --build=$TARGET --host=$TARGET --target=$TARGET \
--prefix=$X_WORKDIR_ROOT/dest --with-sysroot=$X_WORKDIR_ROOT/dest \
--disable-multilib --disable-shared --disable-nls --enable-libgomp \
--disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-verbose --with-tune=native \
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-threads=posix \
--disable-win32-registry "MAKEINFO=missing"

where TARGET is x86_64-w64-mingw32. This is the make call I'm using:

make $MAKE_JOBS bootstrap "CFLAGS=-g0 -O3" "CXXFLAGS=-g0 -O3" \
"CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-g0 -O3" "CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-g0 -O3" \
"BOOT_CXXFLAGS=-g0 -O3"

With MAKEINFO=missing, I get this error during the first stage of the
bootstrap:

make[3]: Entering directory '/d/mingw-distro-setup/build/gcc'
if [ xinfo = xinfo ]; then \
        /d/mingw-distro-setup/src/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000
--split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --no-split -I . -I ../../src/gcc/doc
\
                -I ../../src/gcc/doc/include -o doc/cpp.info
../../src/gcc/doc/cpp.texi; \
fi
../../src/gcc/doc/cpp.texi:4375: table requires an argument: the formatter for
@item
../../src/gcc/doc/cppopts.texi:493: table requires an argument: the formatter
for @item
make[3]: *** [Makefile:3226: doc/cpp.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/d/mingw-distro-setup/build/gcc'
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

A similar error occurs (i.e., the "table requires an argument" message) if I
don't include MAKEINFO=missing in the configure call.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with the distribution of texinfo provided by
MSYS2, or if it's an issue with GCC itself. I figured it would be a good idea
to inform the GCC developers first, though.