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RE: Problems installing binutils


----Original Message----
>From: Aaron Gray
>Sent: 25 May 2005 21:47

> I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I
> haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs
> binutils fine.
> 
> Doing 'make install' I get the following error :-
> 
> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 -I /usr/src/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc
> /usr/src/bi
> nutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> /usr/src/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.texi:52: Unknown index `ky'
> and/or
> ' in @synindex.
> makeinfo: Removing output file
> `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc/binutils.i
> nfo' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
> make[2]: *** [binutils.info] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/binutils-2.15/binutils'
> make: *** [install-binutils] Error 2
> 
> Any ideas ?

  You can force it to ignore the error in the binutils.info subtarget and
carry on with the main install-recursive target by giving the -k flag:

make -k install

  That will leave you with insufficient docs, but you'll still have working
tools.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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