This bug is more or less the same as https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14678 , only this one is for GDB 7.9. If you don't have makeinfo installed, the make will fail: make[5]: Entering directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/gdb/doc' (test "ln -s" = "ln -s" && \ ln -s ./all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi) || \ ln ./all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi || \ cp ./all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi date=`sed -n -e 's/^.* BFD_VERSION_DATE \(.*\)$/\1/p' ./../../bfd/version.h`; \ sed -e "s/DATE/$date/" < ./../version.in > version.subst echo "@set GDBVN `sed q version.subst`" > ./GDBvn.new if [ -n "(GDB) " ]; then \ echo "@set VERSION_PACKAGE (GDB) " >> ./GDBvn.new; \ fi echo "@set BUGURL @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/}" >> ./GDBvn.new if [ "@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/}" = "@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/}" ]; then \ echo "@set BUGURL_DEFAULT" >> ./GDBvn.new; \ fi if test -z "-I ./../../readline/doc"; then \ echo "@set SYSTEM_READLINE" >> ./GDBvn.new; \ fi if [ -n "" ]; then \ echo "@set SYSTEM_GDBINIT " >> ./GDBvn.new; \ fi mv GDBvn.new GDBvn.texi /home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/missing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I ./../../readline/doc -I ./../mi -I . \ -o gdb.info ./gdb.texinfo /home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. You might want to install the Texinfo package: <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/> The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might want to install GNU make: <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/> make[5]: *** [gdb.info] Error 127 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/gdb/doc' make[4]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/gdb' make[3]: *** [install-only] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/gdb' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9/gdb' make[1]: *** [install-gdb] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ward/tmp/eb_sandbox_20150311_13-46-46_buOYR/GDB/7.9/GCC-4.9.2/gdb-7.9' make: *** [install] Error 2 This is because the missing script passes the return code (127) from the failed call to makeinfo to make. Setting MAKEINFO=true (or false) will not help because the configure script does a version check on makeinfo.
This also affects GDB 7.10. Here is the one-liner that reproduces the issue: docker run -i -t centos:centos6 sh -c "yum -y install gcc make tar xz && curl http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.10.tar.xz | tar -xJ && cd gdb-7.10 && ./configure && make && make install" My workaround: echo '#!/bin/sh' >makeinfo && \ echo 'echo "makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.2"' >>makeinfo && \ chmod a+x makeinfo && \ ./configure MAKEINFO=`realpath ./makeinfo` && \ make && \ make install
Here is mine: https://github.com/cms-sw/cmsdist/blob/IB/CMSSW_7_6_X/next/gdb-disable-makeinfo.patch (probably not good for upstream) Basically if MAKEINFO is true, keep it as-is and ignore resetting MAKEINFO to something else.
Reclassifying to build/.
Dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14678 ***