make dvi on 2.14 has errors

[Marty Leisner]

Doing 
        make dvi
on a pretty vanilla redhat 8.0 with binutils 2.14
has a problem...
....
touch s-bfdio
./chew -f ./doc.str  <./../opncls.c >opncls.tmp
./../../move-if-change opncls.tmp opncls.texi
opncls.texi is unchanged
touch s-opncls
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../reloc.c >reloc.tmp
./../../move-if-change reloc.tmp reloc.texi
reloc.texi is unchanged
touch s-reloc
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../section.c >section.tmp
./../../move-if-change section.tmp section.texi
section.texi is unchanged
touch s-section
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../syms.c >syms.tmp
./../../move-if-change syms.tmp syms.texi
syms.texi is unchanged
touch s-syms
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../targets.c >targets.tmp
./../../move-if-change targets.tmp targets.texi
targets.texi is unchanged
touch s-targets
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../init.c >init.tmp
./../../move-if-change init.tmp init.texi
init.texi is unchanged
touch s-init
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../hash.c >hash.tmp
./../../move-if-change hash.tmp hash.texi
hash.texi is unchanged
touch s-hash
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../linker.c >linker.tmp
./../../move-if-change linker.tmp linker.texi
linker.texi is unchanged
touch s-linker
./chew -f ./doc.str <./../mmo.c >mmo.tmp
./../../move-if-change mmo.tmp mmo.texi
mmo.texi is unchanged
touch s-mmo
TEXINPUTS=../../texinfo/texinfo.tex:$TEXINPUTS \
  MAKEINFO='makeinfo --no-split -I .' `if test -f ../../texinfo/util/texi2dvi; 
then echo ../../texinfo/util/texi2dvi; else echo texi2dvi; fi` bfd.texinfo
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(/usr/local/src/binutils-2.14/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 1999-09-25.10]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) [1]
! Undefined control sequence.
l.67 \xdef\manvers{\1
                     .5}  % For use in headers, footers too
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