The source tarball for binutils 2.34 is missing the binutils.info file.  This means that the source cannot be built on any system unless it first installs the makeinfo program and its prerequisites.

Making info in doc
/work/src/cc/binutils-2.34/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]: *** [Makefile:474: binutils.info] Error 127
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1134: info-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: *** [Makefile:3633: all-binutils] Error 2

/work/src/cc/binutils-2.34$ find -name \*.info
./ld/ld.info
./gprof/gprof.info
./bfd/doc/bfd.info
./gas/doc/as.info
./binutils/sysroff.info