Re: gas/doc fails to build with mingw

[Bill Morgan <arthurwilliammorgan at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:08 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Bill Morgan <arthurwilliammorgan@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:42:49 -0500
> >
> > I'm getting errors like this when building binutils-gdb (the gas doc is
> > failing to build). Has anyone seen this before or know how to fix it?
> >
> > /d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:635: table requires
> an
> > argument: the formatter for @item
>
> Line 635 is:
>
>   @table @gcctabopt
>
> And gcctabopt is defined near the beginning:
>
>   @macro gcctabopt{body}
>   @code{\body\}
>   @end macro
>
> So I wonder why this didn't work for you.


Not sure. I don't know texi syntax.

Probably nothing to do with this error, but it is strange that make is
passing 2 copies of --split-size argument to makeinfo though.

make[3]: Entering directory '/d/git/binutils-gdb/debug-build/gas'
Making all in doc
make[4]: Entering directory '/d/git/binutils-gdb/debug-build/gas/doc'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
if (makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --version)
>/dev/null 2>&1; then \
  for f in as.info as.info-[0-9] as.info-[0-9][0-9] as.i[0-9]
as.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
  done; \
else :; fi && \
if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I
"/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc" -I
"/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/../libiberty" -I
"/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/../bfd/doc" -I ../../bfd/doc  -I
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc \
 -o as.info `test -f 'as.texi' || echo
'/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/'`as.texi; \
then \
  rc=0; \
else \
  rc=$?; \
  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./as.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:635: table requires an
argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:641: table requires an
argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:938: table requires an
argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:952: table requires an
argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1024: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1035: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1116: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1132: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1153: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1174: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1222: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1252: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1289: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1341: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1365: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1382: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1653: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1772: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:1877: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:2442: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:7123: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi:35: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-alpha.texi:42: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-bfin.texi:30: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-csky.texi:27: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-csky.texi:150: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-epiphany.texi:31: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-h8300.texi:28: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-i386.texi:56: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-nios2.texi:32: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-ppc.texi:38: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-pru.texi:26: table requires
an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-riscv.texi:29: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-tic6x.texi:29: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-tilegx.texi:29: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-visium.texi:32: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
/d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/c-xtensa.texi:34: table
requires an argument: the formatter for @item
make[4]: *** [Makefile:505: as.info] Error 1


> (And why are you building
> Gas documentation while building GDB?)
>

Inexperience in building this code. I cloned the binutils-gdb git
repository, ran configure, and make. I don't know how to list the make
build targets easily so I can just build the the gdb target.