Re: Problems building gdb (gdb.texinfo error)?

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 14:55 -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
> 
> > makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000  -
> > DHAVE_MAKEINFO_CLICK -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-
> > gdb/gdb/doc/../../readline/doc -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-
> > gdb/gdb/doc/../mi -I /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc \
> >          -o gdb.info /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-
> > gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884:
> > warning: @table should not appear in @end
> > /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: table
> > requires an argument: the formatter for @item
> > /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884: no
> > matching `@end table'
> > /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27884:
> > warning: @end missing argument
> > /home/sellcey/tot/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:27893: @node
> > seen before @end table
> > Makefile:486: recipe for target 'gdb.info' failed
> > 
> 
> Oh, this is due to a recent patch of mine.  The doc does not appear to 
> be built automatically with just "make", but perhaps the autobuilders 
> should build the doc explicitly, indeed.
> 
> I'll look for a fix, thanks for reporting.
> 
> Simon

Maybe 'makeinfo' is not installed on the autobuilders.  I think make
will automatically skip building the documentation if it cannot find
makeinfo.  I am doing a plain make on my system.

Steve Ellcey