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

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Apr 26 18:51:00 GMT 2005


Hi Zack,

> 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 that this would be a good idea, and I hope quite simple to do.

Would you like to submit a patch ?

Cheers
   Nick




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