Building gcc-4.1.1

Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

Hi, Folks,

You maybe remember that in another e-mail, I told you that my Sunblade
100 workstation keeps makeinfo in /usr/local/bin, gmake still insists
that makeinfo is missing from my system.  Here's the message I got when
I tried to rebuild gcc-4.1.1 earlier tonight.  Does the message help?

Thanks.

Bill

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.
gmake[3]: *** [fastjar.info] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gccobj/fastjar'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gccobj/fastjar'
gmake[1]: *** [all-fastjar] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gccobj'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

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Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Bill McEnaney" <bill@rkirkpat.net> writes:

> You maybe remember that in another e-mail, I told you that my Sunblade
> 100 workstation keeps makeinfo in /usr/local/bin, gmake still insists
> that makeinfo is missing from my system.  Here's the message I got when
> I tried to rebuild gcc-4.1.1 earlier tonight.  Does the message help?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 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.

The top level configure script requires makeinfo to be at least a
certain version.  For 4.1.1, makeinfo needs to be version 4.2 or
higher.  Otherwise you will get the above message.  So the first thing
you should check is "makeinfo --version".

Ian

Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

I've just installed GNU make-3.81.  After I ran "makeinfo --version",
the workstation complained that it couldn't find ELF.  Since I had read
that GNU's strip command caused that complaint, I deleted that command
from /usr/local/bin.  Maybe I still get the error message about makeinfo
at least partly because the workstation can't find ELF.

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

The top level configure script requires makeinfo to be at least a
certain version.  For 4.1.1, makeinfo needs to be version 4.2 or
higher.  Otherwise you will get the above message.  So the first thing
you should check is "makeinfo --version".

Ian



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Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Bill McEnaney" <bill@rkirkpat.net> writes:

> I've just installed GNU make-3.81.  After I ran "makeinfo --version",
> the workstation complained that it couldn't find ELF.

I don't know what "couldn't find ELF" means.  What is the exact error
message?

Note that makeinfo has nothing to do with make.  makeinfo is part of
the texinfo package.

This is what I see when I run makeinfo --version:

==================================================
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
==================================================

Ian

Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

Oops! Naturally, Ian is right.  I forgot texinfo.  That's what I get for
spending much of my time programming in Prolog.  :)  The new version of
GNU make won't solve the "Cannot find ELF" problem.

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> 
> Note that makeinfo has nothing to do with make.  makeinfo is part of
> the texinfo package.
> 
> This is what I see when I run makeinfo --version:
> 
> ==================================================
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8
> 
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
> ==================================================
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

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Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

Ian, The exact error message is, "makeinfo: Cannot find \x7fELFKilled."

Bill

> I don't know what "couldn't find ELF" means.  What is the exact error
> message?
> 
> 

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Re: Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

Ian, The "Cannot find ELF" problem seems to have disappeared because
I've just installed texinfo-4.8.  Thanks.

Bill

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> 
> I don't know what "couldn't find ELF" means.  What is the exact error
> message?
> 
> Note that makeinfo has nothing to do with make.  makeinfo is part of
> 
> 
> 

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Building gcc-4.1.1

[Bill McEnaney]

Hi, Everyboy,

Thanks to Ian and to everyone else who thought about thw problem I had.
 To solve it, I installed the current version of texinfo.  So now,
gcc-4.1.1 is running on my workstation.

Bill
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