error in gprof.texi

Bobby McNulty snyder100@bellsouth.net
Thu May 24 01:10:00 GMT 2007


I get the following error in binutils 2.17.50 from trunk.
It happens when  installing gprof.info on Mandriva linux i586 spring 
edition 2007 (free) or i686-pc-linux.

It really is annoying. Seems to have started yesterday or whenever gprof 
was installed.
makeinfo has been updated, but it was from 2004. And it was the same on 
built in.
I know you are not supposed to use prerelease software, but I am a risk 
taker as for as
software goes. Could the maintainer of gprof.texi look into this?
It happens when installing with makeinfo, not when compiling.
Bobby




make[6]: Entering directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
        rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
        if (makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 
--version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
          for f in gprof.info gprof.info-[0-9] gprof.info-[0-9][0-9] 
gprof.i[0-9] gprof.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
            if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
          done; \
        else :; fi && \
        if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I 
"../../src/gprof" -I ../bfd/doc  -I ../../src/gprof \
         -o gprof.info `test -f 'gprof.texi' || echo 
'../../src/gprof/'`gprof.texi; \
        then \
          rc=0; \
        else \
          rc=$?; \
          $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./gprof.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
        fi; \
        rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
../../src/gprof/gprof.texi:51: Bad argument `ignore' to `@end', using 
`copying'.
../../src/gprof/gprof.texi:50: Multiline command @end used improperly.
../../src/gprof/gprof.texi:40: Unmatched `@end'.
makeinfo: Removing output file `gprof.info' due to errors; use --force 
to preserve.
make[6]: *** [gprof.info] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
make[5]: *** [install-info-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o/gprof'
make[1]: *** [install-gprof] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bobby/binutils/o'
make: *** [install] Error 2



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