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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnu-doc package: failing to build glibc-2.7 info fil
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Eric Padman |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnu-doc package: failing to build glibc-2.7 info files |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:30:52 +1200 |
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:27 +0200, Christophe Jarry wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> To complete gnu-doc package, I need to build GLIBC documentation in
> info format. I downloaded glibc-2.7.tar.bz2 and glibc-ports-2.7.tar.bz2
> sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/. Then:
>
> tar -xjf glibc-2.7.tar.bz2
> tar -xjf glibc-ports-2.7.tar.bz2
> mv glibc-ports-2.7 glibc-2.7/ports
> mkdir glibc-build
> cd glibc-build
>
> I tried two methods to build documentation:
>
> - Using makeinfo:
>
> makeinfo ../glibc-2.7/manual/libc.texinfo -I../glibc-2.7/manual/*
>
> gives me the errors in the attachement named "glibc-makeinfo-error".
>
> - Using configure + make install-info:
>
> ../glibc-2.7/configure
>
> gives me the error in the attachement named "glibc-configure-error".
> The attachement named "config.log" is the one mentioned in
> "glibc-configure-error".
>
> Any information to solve this is welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Christophe
I tried building by following your steps and got the some results.
apt-get build-dep glibc seems to solve this problem for me.
Cheers,
Eric (MentalNotes)