SUMMARY: GCC compilation on Solaris: 'makeinfo' not found.

From: Vitaly Beliaev (vit@mmk.ru)
Date: Tue Sep 02 1997 - 05:50:10 CDT


Salutations sunners!

Let me make a concise introduction to solved problem. Here is my original
post:

> I would like to ask GCC compilation gurus, what utilities I will
> need further to finish compiling of GCC 2.7.2.3?
>
> I passed stage1, passed 'make install' but I have no 'makeinfo'
> utility on my sun workstation!!!
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Sincerely,
> Vitaly

Thanks a lot to all people who sent me a good deal of advices and helped
solving that puzzle:

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk>
fpardo@tisny.com (Frank Pardo)
Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <alejolo@sue.ideam.gov.co>
Jeff Brody <jeff@octopus.wr.usgs.gov>
Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Amanul Haque <ahaque@psa.pencom.com>
Tony C. Wu <tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw>
Manish Doshi <mdoshi@Guanine-eth0.BCHS.uh.edu>
szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
Bob Bridgham <robbie@b-e-s-t.com>
Nelson Jose dos Santos Ferreira <Nelson.Ferreira@inesc.pt>
Karl E. Vogel <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>

The final conclusion is that you don't really need makeinfo to build a
functioning GCC compiler. Makeinfo compiles the info files for GNU
software (dicumentation). The gcc-info files are already compiled and
installed.

So you can set a link, that responds to the name, like:
ln -s /usr/bin/true /path/makeinfo

At least, If you will need info files, then just grab makeinfo from a GNU
mirror compile and install the info files again. Perhaps:
'make install-info'

makeinfo utility is a part of the texinfo package. Can be obtained from:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/makeinfo.README.

Big thanks again. Have a good time!
Vitaly

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