I want to build a released binutils tar ball on an embedded linux system.
Without makeinfo, flex, bison etc.

Oreviously this was possible with some hickups.

with 2.24 it was possible to do this.
make && make -k install
the make install had some problems, but only after all tools were installed.


with 2.25 this happens:

make
...
/bin/bash ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../../move-if-change init.tmp init.texi
touch init.stamp
./chew -f ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/doc.str < ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../hash.c >hash.tmp
/bin/bash ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../../move-if-change hash.tmp hash.texi
touch hash.stamp
./chew -f ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/doc.str < ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../linker.c >linker.tmp
/bin/bash ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../../move-if-change linker.tmp linker.texi
touch linker.stamp
./chew -f ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/doc.str < ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../mmo.c >mmo.tmp
/bin/bash ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/../../move-if-change mmo.tmp mmo.texi
touch mmo.stamp
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
	rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
	if (/home/ed/gnu/x/binutils-2.25/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
	  for f in bfd.info bfd.info-[0-9] bfd.info-[0-9][0-9] bfd.i[0-9] bfd.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
	    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
	  done; \
	else :; fi && \
	if /home/ed/gnu/x/binutils-2.25/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000   -I ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc \
	 -o bfd.info `test -f 'bfd.texinfo' || echo '../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/doc/'`bfd.texinfo; \
	then \
	  rc=0; \
	else \
	  rc=$?; \
	  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./bfd.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
	fi; \
	rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
         indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
         call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
         DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
         the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive site.
make[3]: *** [bfd.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd/doc'
Making info in po
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd/po'
( if test 'x../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/po' != 'x.'; then \
	    posrcprefix='../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/'; \
	  else \
	    posrcprefix="../"; \
	  fi; \
	  rm -f SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES \
	    && (sed -e '/^#/d' \
	            -e '/^[ 	]*$/d' \
		    -e "s@.*@	$posrcprefix& \\\\@" < ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/po/SRC-POTFILES.in \
		| sed -e '$s/\\$//') > SRC-POTFILES-t \
	    && chmod a-w SRC-POTFILES-t \
	    && mv SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES )
( rm -f BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES \
	    && (sed -e '/^#/d' \
	            -e '/^[ 	]*$/d' \
		    -e "s@.*@	../& \\\\@" < ../../../binutils-2.25/bfd/po/BLD-POTFILES.in \
		| sed -e '$s/\\$//') > BLD-POTFILES-t \
	    && chmod a-w BLD-POTFILES-t \
	    && mv BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES )
cd .. \
	  && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in:po/Make-in \
	     CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/bash ./config.status
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing bfd_stdint.h commands
config.status: executing default commands
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd/po'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd'
make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ed/gnu/x/b'
make: *** [all] Error 2