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Failure building bfd.info
- From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org, insight at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:18:58 -0800
- Subject: Failure building bfd.info
I'm building insight-6.5 (latest, fixed download) on an older
version Cygwin system which does not have makeinfo installed.
The build fails attempting to build bfd.info.
There seem to be several things which are not right.
1) The tarfile includes bfd.info. There shouldn't be any need
to rebuild it. (I even touched bfd.info after untarring
to insure that make calculated the dependency correctly.)
2) There's a warning message that makeinfo is missing which
says that this would only be needed if a .texi or .texinfo
was modified. None of these files were modified.
3) When the make decides that it needs to build bfd.info, it
cd's to the SOURCE directory, creates a backup directory,
and moves bfd.info, etc., to the backup directory. It then
runs makeinfo, which fails, and it attempts to restore
from the backup directory. Which doesn't appear to
happen. It then deletes the backup directory and exits
with an error code.
Why is this building bfd.info in the SOURCE directory?
This just seems to be the wrong thing to do.
Before I spend even more time chasing down this problem,
has anyone run into this and do you have a fix?
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Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com
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