Re: Problem faced in building binutil

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Meena,

> ../../binutils-2.19.1/gas/config/tc-mips.c:3459: error: format not a
> string literal and no format arguments

Thanks for mentioning this.  We have already fixed the problem in the 
mainline sources, so you may want to start using them.

> After doing above modifications, the above errors are not coming but
> make stops with another warning/error messages as shown below:
>
> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it
> if
>          you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
>          indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.

Makefino is only needed if the info files that are built from the texi 
files are out of date.  The problem here is that both the info files and 
the texi files have come from the same tarball, so they have the same 
(approximate anyway) timestamp.  One simple solution would be to touch 
all the info files in your source tree so that the make system believes 
that that are up to date.  eg:

  % cd <top-of-binutils-sources>
  % find . -name "*.info" -exec touch {} \;

Alternatively you could install the texinfo package on your system which 
will give you a working makeinfo executable.

Cheers
  Nick