glibc 2.25 error during install

glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

Greetings! This is my first time posting to the list.

I'm hoping someone can provide a little insight into a failure I'm getting
while installing glibc in a Gentoo Prefix build under a CentOS 6.9 host OS.
The step that's failing involves generating the libc.info* files; somewhere
around the libc-texinfo.sh script, the file libc.info is found to be
zero-length and the install fails.

I've been looking for missing dependencies and I saw a reference to
texi2dvi in the manual/Makefile so I installed the necessary tex* RPMs so
it would be available, but that didn't allow the install to finish. I'm
rebuilding glibc on the chance that it gets compiled first and installed
later (seems to be how Prefix does it) so we'll see what happens in a few
hours.

In the meantime, if you have any suggestions, I'd sure welcome them.

Here's the specific error I get:

LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
--output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info libc.texinfo
makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
.././scripts/mkinstalldirs
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/image//auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/usr/share/info
mkdir -p --
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/image//auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/usr/share/info
for file in
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info*; do \
  /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $file
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/image//auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/usr/share/info/;
\
done
install-info:
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/image//auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/usr/share/info/
libc.info: empty file
make[2]: *** [Makefile:180: install] Error 1

Thanks,

- Leo

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/06/2018 12:18 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> Here's the specific error I get:
> 
> LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> libc.info libc.texinfo
> makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13

Enter the build directory and issue 'make pdf', do you get an error?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

Hi Carlos,

No error, that worked just fine.

bash-4.1$ make pdf
make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
objdir=`pwd` pdf
[snip]
Output written on libc.pdf (1124 pages, 5879560 bytes).
Transcript written on libc.log.
bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 5879560 Aug  6 10:48 manual/libc.pdf

Regards,

- Leo

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:33 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/06/2018 12:18 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> > Here's the specific error I get:
> >
> > LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
> >
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> >
> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> > libc.info libc.texinfo
> > makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
>
> Enter the build directory and issue 'make pdf', do you get an error?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

Removing the empty manual/libc.info and running "make info" generates
another empty libc.info.

bash-4.1$ rm manual/libc.info
bash-4.1$ make info
make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
objdir=`pwd` info
make[1]: Entering directory
'/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
make  -C manual info
make[2]: Entering directory
'/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
--output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info libc.texinfo
makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
bash-4.1$ !find
find . -name libc.info
./manual/libc.info
bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 0 Aug  6 12:01 manual/libc.info

I do see the texinfo file, looks like it's part of the source tarball (not
generated):

bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 4460 Feb  5  2017
/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo

Regards,

- Leo

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:52 AM Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> No error, that worked just fine.
>
> bash-4.1$ make pdf
> make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
> objdir=`pwd` pdf
> [snip]
> Output written on libc.pdf (1124 pages, 5879560 bytes).
> Transcript written on libc.log.
> bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 5879560 Aug  6 10:48 manual/libc.pdf
>
> Regards,
>
> - Leo
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:33 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/06/2018 12:18 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
>> > Here's the specific error I get:
>> >
>> > LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
>> >
>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>> >
>> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>> > libc.info libc.texinfo
>> > makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
>>
>> Enter the build directory and issue 'make pdf', do you get an error?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
>>
>

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/06/2018 01:52 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> No error, that worked just fine.
> 
> bash-4.1$ make pdf
> make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
> objdir=`pwd` pdf
> [snip]
> Output written on libc.pdf (1124 pages, 5879560 bytes).
> Transcript written on libc.log.
> bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 5879560 Aug  6 10:48 manual/libc.pdf

OK, next is:

make info.

Does that fail?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/06/2018 03:16 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> Removing the empty manual/libc.info and running "make info" generates
> another empty libc.info.
> 
> bash-4.1$ rm manual/libc.info
> bash-4.1$ make info
> make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
> objdir=`pwd` info
> make[1]: Entering directory
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
> make  -C manual info
> make[2]: Entering directory
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
> LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> libc.info libc.texinfo
> makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
> bash-4.1$ !find
> find . -name libc.info
> ./manual/libc.info
> bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 0 Aug  6 12:01 manual/libc.info
> 
> I do see the texinfo file, looks like it's part of the source tarball (not
> generated):
> 
> bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 4460 Feb  5  2017
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo

It should be doing way more work than this.

grep 'makeinfo' config.log
configure:4799: checking for makeinfo
configure:4815: found /usr/bin/makeinfo
configure:4826: result: makeinfo
configure:4841: checking version of makeinfo
ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
MAKEINFO='makeinfo'

Which makeinfo is being used?

Then run makeinfo --version?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

Hi Carlos,

Here you go:

bash-4.1$ grep makeinfo config.log
configure:4843: checking for makeinfo
configure:4859: found /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/usr/bin/makeinfo
configure:4870: result: makeinfo
configure:4885: checking version of makeinfo
ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
MAKEINFO='makeinfo'

bash-4.1$ makeinfo --version
makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
touch (GNU coreutils) 8.30
Packaged by Gentoo (8.30 (p01))
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon,
David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.

There is a /usr/bin/makeinfo on the system, but it's not being used. I
intentionally added the Gentoo Prefix EPREFIX bin paths into the front of
the PATH variable before beginning to be absolutely sure newly built tools
are found in the correct location. I think the bootstrap script provided by
Prefix does that already, though.

- Leo

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:29 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/06/2018 03:16 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> > Removing the empty manual/libc.info and running "make info" generates
> > another empty libc.info.
> >
> > bash-4.1$ rm manual/libc.info
> > bash-4.1$ make info
> > make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
> >
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
> > objdir=`pwd` info
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> >
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
> > make  -C manual info
> > make[2]: Entering directory
> >
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
> > LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
> >
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> >
> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> > libc.info libc.texinfo
> > makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> >
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> >
> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
> > bash-4.1$ !find
> > find . -name libc.info
> > ./manual/libc.info
> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.info
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 0 Aug  6 12:01 manual/libc.info
> >
> > I do see the texinfo file, looks like it's part of the source tarball
> (not
> > generated):
> >
> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
> >
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 4460 Feb  5  2017
> >
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
>
> It should be doing way more work than this.
>
> grep 'makeinfo' config.log
> configure:4799: checking for makeinfo
> configure:4815: found /usr/bin/makeinfo
> configure:4826: result: makeinfo
> configure:4841: checking version of makeinfo
> ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
> MAKEINFO='makeinfo'
>
> Which makeinfo is being used?
>
> Then run makeinfo --version?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

I removed the file again and ran "make -n info" and I got 27 lines. I ran
each and every one of them in turn (had to fix one special character in a
sort command) and each one generated the desired file *except* for the last
one, the makeinfo step. I modified the command to use the makeinfo from
/usr/bin/makeinfo explicitly, and it worked with a few warnings issued:

bash-4.1$ LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/makeinfo -P
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
--output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info libc.texinfo
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//string.texi:1125:
warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
reword to avoid that.
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//string.texi:2490:
warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
reword to avoid that.
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//filesys.texi:3257:
warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
reword to avoid that.
bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 91678 Aug  6 14:16
/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
libc.info

bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

So looks like we're down to something wrong in the makeinfo build under
Gentoo. While looking for a "verbose" flag on makeinfo, I found something
odd:

bash-4.1$ makeinfo --verbose
makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
touch: unrecognized option '--verbose'
Try 'touch --help' for more information.

It looks like "makeinfo" is more like a wrapper around "touch". I get a
very different result if I try that with the CentOS makeinfo:

bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/makeinfo --verbose
makeinfo: missing file argument.
Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.

So I'm going to go back and report this to the Gentoo devs. Doesn't look
like an issue in glibc. And I'll take a chance and copy in the CentOS
makeinfo and try the install again.

Regards,

- Leo


On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 1:32 PM Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> Here you go:
>
> bash-4.1$ grep makeinfo config.log
> configure:4843: checking for makeinfo
> configure:4859: found /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/usr/bin/makeinfo
> configure:4870: result: makeinfo
> configure:4885: checking version of makeinfo
> ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
> MAKEINFO='makeinfo'
>
> bash-4.1$ makeinfo --version
> makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
> touch (GNU coreutils) 8.30
> Packaged by Gentoo (8.30 (p01))
> Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon,
> David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
>
> There is a /usr/bin/makeinfo on the system, but it's not being used. I
> intentionally added the Gentoo Prefix EPREFIX bin paths into the front of
> the PATH variable before beginning to be absolutely sure newly built tools
> are found in the correct location. I think the bootstrap script provided by
> Prefix does that already, though.
>
> - Leo
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:29 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/06/2018 03:16 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
>> > Removing the empty manual/libc.info and running "make info" generates
>> > another empty libc.info.
>> >
>> > bash-4.1$ rm manual/libc.info
>> > bash-4.1$ make info
>> > make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
>> >
>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
>> > objdir=`pwd` info
>> > make[1]: Entering directory
>> >
>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
>> > make  -C manual info
>> > make[2]: Entering directory
>> >
>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
>> > LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
>> >
>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>> >
>> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>> > libc.info libc.texinfo
>> > makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
>> > make[2]: Leaving directory
>> >
>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
>> > make[1]: Leaving directory
>> >
>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
>> > bash-4.1$ !find
>> > find . -name libc.info
>> > ./manual/libc.info
>> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.info
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 0 Aug  6 12:01 manual/libc.info
>> >
>> > I do see the texinfo file, looks like it's part of the source tarball
>> (not
>> > generated):
>> >
>> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
>> >
>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 4460 Feb  5  2017
>> >
>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
>>
>> It should be doing way more work than this.
>>
>> grep 'makeinfo' config.log
>> configure:4799: checking for makeinfo
>> configure:4815: found /usr/bin/makeinfo
>> configure:4826: result: makeinfo
>> configure:4841: checking version of makeinfo
>> ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
>> MAKEINFO='makeinfo'
>>
>> Which makeinfo is being used?
>>
>> Then run makeinfo --version?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
>>
>

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Leo Butler]

Just to provide some closure to this issue, I want to report back that
'makeinfo' isn't the true makeinfo at the time that installation of glibc
is initiated in Gentoo Prefix. I suspect the presence of this script is a
bootstrapping compromise that needs to be improved upon, as later in the
flow it becomes a symlink to a perl script called 'texi2any' from package
sys-apps/texinfo.

I managed to finish installation of Gentoo Prefix by temporarily replacing
the stub script with the symlink to the CentOS version of makeinfo
mentioned previously. So it's "case closed" as far as glibc is concerned.

- Leo

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 2:25 PM Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:

> I removed the file again and ran "make -n info" and I got 27 lines. I ran
> each and every one of them in turn (had to fix one special character in a
> sort command) and each one generated the desired file *except* for the last
> one, the makeinfo step. I modified the command to use the makeinfo from
> /usr/bin/makeinfo explicitly, and it worked with a few warnings issued:
>
> bash-4.1$ LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/makeinfo -P
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> libc.info libc.texinfo
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//string.texi:1125:
> warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
> reword to avoid that.
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//string.texi:2490:
> warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
> reword to avoid that.
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual//filesys.texi:3257:
> warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info;
> reword to avoid that.
> bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> libc.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 91678 Aug  6 14:16
> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
> libc.info
>
> bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/makeinfo --version
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> So looks like we're down to something wrong in the makeinfo build under
> Gentoo. While looking for a "verbose" flag on makeinfo, I found something
> odd:
>
> bash-4.1$ makeinfo --verbose
> makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
> touch: unrecognized option '--verbose'
> Try 'touch --help' for more information.
>
> It looks like "makeinfo" is more like a wrapper around "touch". I get a
> very different result if I try that with the CentOS makeinfo:
>
> bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/makeinfo --verbose
> makeinfo: missing file argument.
> Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
>
> So I'm going to go back and report this to the Gentoo devs. Doesn't look
> like an issue in glibc. And I'll take a chance and copy in the CentOS
> makeinfo and try the install again.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Leo
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 1:32 PM Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> Here you go:
>>
>> bash-4.1$ grep makeinfo config.log
>> configure:4843: checking for makeinfo
>> configure:4859: found /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/usr/bin/makeinfo
>> configure:4870: result: makeinfo
>> configure:4885: checking version of makeinfo
>> ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
>> MAKEINFO='makeinfo'
>>
>> bash-4.1$ makeinfo --version
>> makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
>> touch (GNU coreutils) 8.30
>> Packaged by Gentoo (8.30 (p01))
>> Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>> https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon,
>> David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
>>
>> There is a /usr/bin/makeinfo on the system, but it's not being used. I
>> intentionally added the Gentoo Prefix EPREFIX bin paths into the front of
>> the PATH variable before beginning to be absolutely sure newly built tools
>> are found in the correct location. I think the bootstrap script provided by
>> Prefix does that already, though.
>>
>> - Leo
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:29 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/06/2018 03:16 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
>>> > Removing the empty manual/libc.info and running "make info" generates
>>> > another empty libc.info.
>>> >
>>> > bash-4.1$ rm manual/libc.info
>>> > bash-4.1$ make info
>>> > make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" -C
>>> >
>>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25
>>> > objdir=`pwd` info
>>> > make[1]: Entering directory
>>> >
>>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
>>> > make  -C manual info
>>> > make[2]: Entering directory
>>> >
>>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
>>> > LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo -P
>>> >
>>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>>> >
>>> --output=/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/manual/
>>> > libc.info libc.texinfo
>>> > makeinfo GNU texinfo 4.13
>>> > make[2]: Leaving directory
>>> >
>>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual'
>>> > make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> >
>>> '/auto/ins-tools/linux_cel69/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25'
>>> > bash-4.1$ !find
>>> > find . -name libc.info
>>> > ./manual/libc.info
>>> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt manual/libc.info
>>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 0 Aug  6 12:01 manual/libc.info
>>> >
>>> > I do see the texinfo file, looks like it's part of the source tarball
>>> (not
>>> > generated):
>>> >
>>> > bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
>>> >
>>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
>>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 insrgr eng 4460 Feb  5  2017
>>> >
>>> /auto/ins-tools/linux_rh6/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11/work/glibc-2.25/manual/libc.texinfo
>>>
>>> It should be doing way more work than this.
>>>
>>> grep 'makeinfo' config.log
>>> configure:4799: checking for makeinfo
>>> configure:4815: found /usr/bin/makeinfo
>>> configure:4826: result: makeinfo
>>> configure:4841: checking version of makeinfo
>>> ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO=makeinfo
>>> MAKEINFO='makeinfo'
>>>
>>> Which makeinfo is being used?
>>>
>>> Then run makeinfo --version?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carlos.
>>>
>>

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to provide some closure to this issue, I want to report back that
> 'makeinfo' isn't the true makeinfo at the time that installation of glibc
> is initiated in Gentoo Prefix. I suspect the presence of this script is a
> bootstrapping compromise that needs to be improved upon, as later in the
> flow it becomes a symlink to a perl script called 'texi2any' from package
> sys-apps/texinfo.

Forcing users to build docs and making them do stupid tricks like
MAKEINFO = true is an absolute waste of time and energy. I've got a
half a dozen dev-boards and gadgets used for testing. Some of the
boards don't have storage space for the tools or the docs. I am
constantly patching configure scripts to get rid of the docs.

The Configure scripts need to be fixed and stop trying to build docs
if the doc tools are not installed. If the tools are installed then
build them with an --enable-XXX just like any other feature.

Jeff

Re: glibc 2.25 error during install

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/07/2018 01:31 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Leo Butler <leobutler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to provide some closure to this issue, I want to report back that
>> 'makeinfo' isn't the true makeinfo at the time that installation of glibc
>> is initiated in Gentoo Prefix. I suspect the presence of this script is a
>> bootstrapping compromise that needs to be improved upon, as later in the
>> flow it becomes a symlink to a perl script called 'texi2any' from package
>> sys-apps/texinfo.
> 
> Forcing users to build docs and making them do stupid tricks like
> MAKEINFO = true is an absolute waste of time and energy. I've got a
> half a dozen dev-boards and gadgets used for testing. Some of the
> boards don't have storage space for the tools or the docs. I am
> constantly patching configure scripts to get rid of the docs.

Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. What you have is a need, and
it is not being met. This is free software, and your patches are welcome
to fix this use case by disabling the manual generation.

> The Configure scripts need to be fixed and stop trying to build docs
> if the doc tools are not installed. If the tools are installed then
> build them with an --enable-XXX just like any other feature.

Sounds great. I look forward to the patches.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.