Help with building propgcc on Linux Mint

Mark Mara

I am getting the following errors when trying to build propgcc on a Linux Mint (17.1) machine.

make[3]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mam1/prop-src/build/binutils/bfd'
make[2]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mam1/prop-src/build/binutils'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mam1/prop-src/build/binutils'
make: *** [/home/mam1/prop-src/propgcc/../build/binutils/binutils-built] Error 2
mam1@mam1-Macmini ~/prop-src/propgcc $ 

I am new to Linux so I have probably have something configured incorrectly. I have attached the complete output from the build attempt. Any hints about where to look for the problem would be greatly appreciated.

--markM

DavidZemon

Lines 1040-1042 report a couple errors. Unknown commands "colophon" and "cygnus" within a texinfo file.

The build instructions on the wiki have a note about this error - you'll need to downgrade you version of texinfo
https://code.google.com/p/propgcc/wiki/PropGccBuild

Mark Mara

SwimDude - Thank you very much for looking though my listing. I will downgrade textifno and try again.

DavidZemon

No problem. Reading Make output when multithreading is on can be difficult. Control-f is your friend (I simply searched for "error")

Mark Mara

The downgrade of texinfo required some additional libraries, but it is working now. Thanks again and thanks to all the people on these forums who spend their valuable time helping newbies.