Build failure on Debian testing (cross to arm-none-eabi)

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Fri Apr 22 19:29:00 GMT 2005


Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> This reminds me ... in the past, I've had problems with binutils'
>> habit of generating the documentation at install time.  For instance,
>> in a rather complicated environment where I built the software, then
>> handed it over to a sysadmin for installation, and he didn't have the
>> same $PATH as I did, and it blew up not being able to find either
>> makeinfo or cc.
>>
>> GCC builds the documentation as part of "make all" - this works much
>> better in that sort of environment, and would have caught this bug as
>> well.  What do people think of changing it?
>
> I think it has actually been fixed a while ago.

Doesn't look like it -- after "make all" in a mainline binutils tree,
"make info" still does stuff.  (I'm about a week out of date, though.)

zw



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