Re: Building from scratch on Raspberry Pi 64-bit - install-info error

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" via Gforth discussion and announcements <gforth-mXXj517/[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:47:32 +0000
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On Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 at 3:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> wrote:


> I'm trying to build "gforth" from scratch on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 running the 64-bit Raspberry Pi operating system based on Debian "buster". I cloned the repository and made it through the "source ./install-deps.sh" and "./BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH" steps with no problems. But the "sudo make install" crashed with
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> /usr/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/info/usr/bin/install-info --info-dir=/usr/local/share/info doc/gforth.info /usr/local/share/info/gforth.info
> install-info: excess command line argument `/usr/local/share/info/gforth.info'
> install-info: No such file or directory for doc/gforth.info
> make: *** [Makefile:889: install-info] Error 1
>
> Is something missing in the Pi operating system? I've run this successfully before on NVIDIA Jetsons, which have arm64 / aarch64 CPUs like the Raspberry Pi but run Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
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Never mind - it works just fine if I build from the source tarball!