Re: Problems building binutils cvs trunk on i686-pc-mingw32

["Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron98wiridge9 at aaronwl dot com>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Christian Joensson wrote:
> 
>> section mapping'.ss reference to nonexistent node `mmo
>> a New Hash Table Type'.ference to nonexistent node `Deriving
>>makeinfo: Removing output file `../../../src/bfd/doc/bfd.info' due to
>>errors; use --force to preserve.
> 
> The nature of this error (the fact that it wraps like that) seems to
> indicate that you have stray CRs (dos line endings) in your sources. 
> You should probably use a binary mount and/or make sure to use Cygwin's
> tar (as opposed to something like winzip) so that you don't get CRLF
> line endings.  I don't know about the other errors.

Yes.  A makeinfo that is configured to use Unix-style LF line endings
rather than Windows-style CRLF line endings causes this problem.  You
need a i686-pc-mingw32 targetted texinfo/makeinfo for this to work
correctly.  If you're using a Cygwin one, you might be able to get it to
work by playing with it a little bit, as Brian describes.  To just make
it work for now, manually rebuild the file with --force and restart the
build.

The other errors appear to just be harmless rot.


Aaron W. LaFramboise