From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16398 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2011 21:51:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 16305 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jan 2011 21:50:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail3.caviumnetworks.com (HELO mail3.caviumnetworks.com) (12.108.191.235) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:50:49 +0000 Received: from caexch01.caveonetworks.com (Not Verified[192.168.16.9]) by mail3.caviumnetworks.com with MailMarshal (v6,7,2,8378) id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:51:34 -0800 Received: from caexch01.caveonetworks.com ([192.168.16.9]) by caexch01.caveonetworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:50:45 -0800 Received: from dd1.caveonetworks.com ([12.108.191.236]) by caexch01.caveonetworks.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:50:45 -0800 Message-ID: <4D375CB5.4010602@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:51:00 -0000 From: David Daney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olumide <50295@web.de> CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Compiling gcc-4.1.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu machines References: <4D36F9D6.5020400@web.de> <4D36FCFC.1000907@acri-st.fr> <4D37089F.50700@web.de> <4D371361.9010609@web.de> <4D3713C3.2040705@redhat.com> <4D371A80.4020604@web.de> <4D371B3E.1090905@redhat.com> <4D37457B.2020003@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4D37457B.2020003@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00294.txt.bz2 On 01/19/2011 12:11 PM, Olumide wrote: > On 19/01/2011 17:11, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 01/19/2011 05:08 PM, Olumide wrote: >>> 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. >> >> You keep not telling us things. >> >> So, does "makeinfo" do anything? > > I've now installed texinfo. > > oaina@temp2:~/Downloads/gcc-build$ which makeinfo > /usr/bin/makeinfo > oaina@temp2:~/Downloads/gcc-build$ makeinfo > makeinfo: missing file argument. > Try `makeinfo --help' for more information. > > Surprisingly, the build still complains that makeinfo is not available! > Some older versions of GCC were broken with versions of texinfo with two digits in part of the version number. I suspect that is the problem you are seeing. What is the output of 'makeinfo --version'? If it is 4.10 or later... David Daney