From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1788 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2011 16:47:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 1775 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jan 2011 16:47:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f175.google.com) (209.85.214.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:47:06 +0000 Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so1000516iwn.20 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:47:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.170.138 with SMTP id f10mr1132564icz.269.1295455624886; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:47:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.230.66 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:47:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D3714CB.7040302@acri-st.fr> References: <4D36F9D6.5020400@web.de> <4D36FCFC.1000907@acri-st.fr> <4D37089F.50700@web.de> <4D371361.9010609@web.de> <4D3714CB.7040302@acri-st.fr> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:47:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Compiling gcc-4.1.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu machines From: Jonathan Wakely To: Cedric Roux Cc: Olumide <50295@web.de>, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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/msg00288.txt.bz2 On 19 January 2011 16:43, Cedric Roux wrote: > On 01/19/2011 05:37 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. > > try to start all over from scratch, you did a "make distclean" right? > unzip the gcc tar.gz again and start from that clean point > (just a guess, I had that error many times with many software out there > because of a make distclean) > Also, it looks as though maybe you're building inside the gcc source tree: /transfer/gcc412/gcc-4.1.2/build Don't do that - the instructions you linked to correctly say to create a directory next to the source tree and build in there.