[Clfs-support] cross-compile binutils build errors

[Joe Ciccone]

axel magnuson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is my first CLFS, and I'm ashamed to say I didn't make it very far.
>
> I'm using ubuntu 8.10 64-bit ed. as my host system
>
> working off of CLFS 1.1.0
>
> I have a intel core 2 duo 8300 (Wolfdale) processor
>
> here are the contents of my ~/.bashrc:
>
> set +h
> umask 022
> CLFS=/mnt/clfs
> LC_ALL=POSIX
> PATH=/cross-tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> export CLFS LC_ALL PATH
> unset CFLAGS
> unset CXXFLAGS
> export BUILD64="-m64"
> alias 'ls=ls -l'
> export CLFS_HOST="x86_64-cross-linux-gnu"
> export CLFS_TARGET="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
>
>
> I followed all of the instructions to the letter with no odd results
> up to section 5 where I compile binutils 2.18 .  The patches seemed to
> apply correctly, as did the compilation (which I copy-pasted from the
> book), and the make configure-host.  However, when it came time to
> make, I got the following error:
>
> config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> config.status: executing libtool commands
> config.status: executing default-1 commands
> config.status: executing bfd_stdint.h commands
> config.status: executing default commands
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd/po'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
> make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd'
> make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/binutils-build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I haven't the slightest what's going on.
>
> Please, any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
Your host system is missing makeinfo from the texinfo package. Note that
the error is above the clip that you pasted. What gives it away is
"make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1".