Failure building bfd.info

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:18:58PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
> I'm building insight-6.5 (latest, fixed download) on an older
> version Cygwin system which does not have makeinfo installed.
> The build fails attempting to build bfd.info.
> 
> There seem to be several things which are not right.
> 
> 1) The tarfile includes bfd.info.  There shouldn't be any need
>    to rebuild it.  (I even touched bfd.info after untarring
>    to insure that make calculated the dependency correctly.)
> 
> 2) There's a warning message that makeinfo is missing which
>    says that this would only be needed if a .texi or .texinfo
>    was modified.  None of these files were modified.

Same cause for these.  It probably rebuilt (or tried to) the generated
files produced by "chew".  Try touching those instead.

> 3) When the make decides that it needs to build bfd.info, it
>    cd's to the SOURCE directory, creates a backup directory,
>    and moves bfd.info, etc., to the backup directory.  It then
>    runs makeinfo, which fails, and it attempts to restore
>    from the backup directory.  Which doesn't appear to
>    happen.  It then deletes the backup directory and exits
>    with an error code.
> 
>    Why is this building bfd.info in the SOURCE directory?
>    This just seems to be the wrong thing to do.

Automake.  There's roughly nothing we can do about this code, I'm
afraid.  I've tried several times.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery