makeinfo: problems building egcs1.1a

[Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS]

> On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 10:33:19AM +0200, Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS wrote:
> > Now, there is a texinfo/makeinfo
> > directory in the egcs distribution, but it does not contain the makeinfo
> > executable. I had to build it, using 'configure' and 'make'.
> > [...]
> If you'd configured the top level directory instead of the
> gcc subdirectory, it would have all worked seamlessly.

I did configure the top level directory. In fact, I did not even type
	cd gcc
Then I tried again from scratch with egcs-1.1b and it worked fine.
I can't understand. Mysterious errors just happen.