Problems installing binutils

Aaron Gray angray@beeb.net
Fri May 27 00:42:00 GMT 2005


> I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I
> haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs
> binutils fine.
>
> Doing 'make install' I get the following error :-
>
> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 -I /usr/src/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc
> /usr/src/bi
> nutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> /usr/src/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.texi:52: Unknown index `ky'
> and/or
> ' in @synindex.
> makeinfo: Removing output file
> `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.i
> nfo' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
> make[2]: *** [binutils.info] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils'
> make: *** [install-binutils] Error 2
>
> Any ideas ?

After several days of checking and cross checking, rebuilding and rebuilding
I have came to the conclusion that my HP machine seems not to want to
compile binutils :(

I can build and install gcc fine on the machine.

Any ideas ?

Aaron



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