[Buildroot] strange error during make
Bernhard Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 14:09:55 UTC 2007
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:43:14AM -0800, izak marais wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I'm trying to build a toolchain for my SH4-based board. It already has a version of uClinux installed, so I only want the compilation tool chain. I've run make config, selecting 'No' for most of the non-toolchain related options (if you think this is causing me trouble, I can include the .config in a future post).
>
>Eventually make exists with an error that I can't decipher (see below). There's a warning about makeinfo that doesn't make sense (I didn't alter any .texi of .texinfo files and reinstalled GNU make just to be on the safe side), but I don't know if it is the cause of the error. It appeards as if something has gone awry in the generated directory structure...
>
>If anybody can help I would greatly appreciate it! Sorry if this is a newbie question; I did search the archives but found nothing similar.
>
>Thanks
>Izak
>
>Here's the output:
>
>izak at izak-desktop:~/buildroot$ make
>
>Checking build system dependencies:
>CC clean: Ok
>CXX clean: Ok
>CPP clean: Ok
>CFLAGS clean: Ok
>CXXFLAGS clean: Ok
>sed works: Ok
>which installed: Ok
>GNU make version '3.81beta4': Ok
>C compiler '/usr/bin/gcc'
>C compiler version '4.0.3': Ok
>bison installed: Ok
>flex installed: Ok
>gettext installed: Ok
>Build system dependencies: Ok
This will now print a nice warning about missing makeinfo, fwiw.
>WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
> you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
> indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The spurious
> call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
> DU, IRIX). You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
> the `GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site.
>make[4]: *** [/home/izak/buildroot/toolchain_build_sh4/binutils-2.17/bfd/doc/bfd.info] Error 1
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/izak/buildroot/toolchain_build_sh4/binutils-2.17-build/bfd/doc'
>Making info in po
Install the makeinfo package for your host or fix binutils
Passing in MAKEINFO=/bin/false to make work too, didn't try
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