Re: Building 6.5.0 on Red Hat 9

[Erel Ortacdag <ortacdag at yahoo dot ca>]

Although I did not notice this for a RedHat EL4 build I have performed, I noticed the same makeinfo error while I was doing a solaris 2.8 build. I found out that Solaris host was using old versions of autoconf and automake. I upgraded them to autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6 and then the problem went away...

Cheers,
Erel

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:14:20 -0400
From: jim marshall <jim.marshall@wbemsolutions.com>
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I'm sorry to bother you with this. I wanted to update my gdb from the 
one we had been using on RH 9 to a newer version and thought I would try 
Insight with the visual goodies. I downloaded it, ran the configure 
script then did a make I get the following error:

Making info in doc
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd/doc'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
am__cwd=`pwd` && cd ../.././bfd/doc && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
for f in ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info-[0-9] 
../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info-[0-9][0-9] ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.i[0-9] 
../.././bfd/doc/bfd.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
  if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
done; \
cd "$am__cwd"; \
if /var/tmp/insight-6.5/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 
--split-size=5000000   -I ../.././bfd/doc \
 -o ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo; \
then \
  rc=0; \
  cd ../.././bfd/doc; \
else \
  rc=$?; \
  cd ../.././bfd/doc && \
  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info" | sed 
's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
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.
make[3]: *** [../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd/doc'
Making info in po
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd/po'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd'
make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/insight-6.5'


I have not modified any of the files. I do have makeinfo (makeinfo (GNU 
texinfo) 4.3), it's probably old and make is GNU Make version 3.79.1, 
using gcc 4.1.0. I was able to successfully build and use Insight 6.4.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

-- 
Jim Marshall