build failure on Debiian Jessie, texinfo again.

Heater.

I'm trying to build propgcc (default branch) on Debian Jessie, on a Raspberry Pi as it happens,
binutils fails to build with:

../../../../propgcc/binutils/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo:325: unknown command `colophon'
../../../../propgcc/binutils/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo:336: unknown command `cygnus'

Seems to be a problem that is reported the world over.

Not really looking for a fix but does anyone how to build binutils and all without having to generate that texinfo junk? No one uses that stuff and it just wastes space and makes builds fail all the time.

davidsaunders

I second the question. The answer may help in a succesful build on RISC OS.

SRLM

This seems to be an issue on Ubuntu 13.10 as well: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/151005-PropGCC-build-fails-on-Ubuntu-13.10

shimniok

I see this issue is reported elsewhere as a problem with texinfo 5.0 and a patch is mentioned. Search for texinfo colophon. No time and not enough context available for me to try to help more right this moment but posting why I can in case it helps.

SRLM

Heater. wrote: »

Not really looking for a fix but does anyone how to build binutils and all without having to generate that texinfo junk? No one uses that stuff and it just wastes space and makes builds fail all the time.

I don't think we want to do that. It appears that the texinfo stuff also goes into the man pages.

Electrodude

SRLM wrote: »

I don't think we want to do that. It appears that the texinfo stuff also goes into the man pages.

So? online man pages

If you don't have X11/Quartz/whatever or Lynx, then download the man pages from somewhere (or copy them from someone for which texinfo actually works) and then install them manually.

Does anyone know what exactly the problem with texinfo is? Why does it never work? Over half of my build failures (mostly under Fink on OSX) were caused by texinfo being stupid.

SRLM

Electrodude wrote: »

So? online man pages

Where's the Propeller documentation there? It's not.

SRLM

The solution is to downgrade texinfo: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/151005-PropGCC-build-fails-on-Ubuntu-13.10?p=1216485&viewfull=1#post1216485

Heater.

Well done SRLM. I had given up!

texinfo is great. I just don't like it getting in the way all the time. All I want to know is how to make it optional.