Problems building gdb (gdb.texinfo error)?

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Thu Mar 14 18:55:00 GMT 2019


On 2019-03-14 2:46 p.m., Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> Is anyone else having trouble building gdb?  I am surprised I haven't seen
> any complaints from the auto-builders.
> 
> Steve Ellcey
> sellcey@marvell.com
> 
> 
> 
> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000  -DHAVE_MAKEINFO_CLICK -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/../../readline/doc -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/../mi -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc \
>          -o gdb.info /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: warning: @table should not appear in @end
> /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: table requires an argument: the formatter for @item
> /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: no matching `@end table'
> /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: warning: @end missing argument
> /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27893: @node seen before @end table
> Makefile:486: recipe for target 'gdb.info' failed
> 

Oh, this is due to a recent patch of mine.  The doc does not appear to 
be built automatically with just "make", but perhaps the autobuilders 
should build the doc explicitly, indeed.

I'll look for a fix, thanks for reporting.

Simon



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