bdfver.texi

[T. J. Brumfield]

I don't know if I encountered a bug of if I just broke something out
of ignorance.  If this is a bug, I'll happily submit a proper bug
report.  If I'm an idiot, please tell me I'm an idiot.

I took a cvs snapshot of binutils, threw in my usual hefty collection
of patches, and built.

I've never had any problems building with all my patches before, and
they all applied cleanly, but this time I'm getting the following
error:

gas/doc/as.texinfo:25: @include 'bfdver.texi' No such file or directory.

I see all the pertinent info in bfd/doc/Makefile to build bfdver.texi,
however, apparently it didn't, because I'm not seeing it in the bdf
doc directory.  In fact, currently in my build directory, the bdf/doc
directory is empty save for the Makefile.

Is it building out of order?

Given the possibility this is my own fault, you can see the compiled
hunk of all my patches here:

http://enderandrew.com/linux/patches/binutils/binutils-ender.patch.bz2

Again, none of these patches have given me grief in the past, and with
my Gentoo boxes I'm generally building binutils pretty often just for
fun.  That patch applies cleanly to 2.17.50.0.17 - since I downloaded
a CVS snapshot, I made a diff from CVS against 2.17.50.0.17 and threw
it in the patches folder, and when I was done, I tested the full patch
against 2.17.50.0.17, and that is what my ebuild pulled.  I grepped
through the patch for mentions of bdfver.texi and found nothing, so
I'm not sure how the patches would have broken anything.  I've tested,
and I can force the build with a "make -ik all" and that will finish,
but I'd rather have a proper, working build.

If anyone is curious, I can give you all the patches broken out.  I'm
also aware that some of the patches I run with are frowned upon (such
as Bdirect) but I've used them without problems for quite a while now.
This is the series:

gentoo/03_all_binutils-2.15.92.0.2-ppc64-pie.patch
gentoo/04_all_binutils-2.15.92.0.2-place-orphan.patch
gentoo/10_all_generate-pie-scripts.patch
gentoo/12_all_sh-targets.patch
gentoo/41_all_006_better_file_error.patch
gentoo/42_all_012_check_ldrunpath_length.patch
gentoo/50_all_binutils-avr-dollar-sign-in-symbol.patch
gentoo/61_all_binutils-001_libiberty-nolimits.patch
gentoo/63_all_binutils-2.17.50.0.13-pt-pax-flags-20070316.patch
gentoo/65_all_binutils-2.14-amd64-32bit-path.patch
gentoo/66_all_binutils-2.17.50.0.2-warn-textrel.patch
gentoo/76_all_only-use-new-ld-dtags.patch.disabled
gentoo/76_all_use-new-ld-dtags.patch
gentoo/77_all_generate-gnu-hash.patch
gentoo/78_all_use-relro.patch
gentoo/91_all_libiberty-pic.patch

uclibc/100-uclibc-conf.patch
uclibc/110-arm-eabi-conf.patch

suse/mips-pic.patch
suse/s390-pic.patch
suse/binutils-skip-rpaths.patch
suse/s390-biarch.diff
suse/x86-64-biarch.patch
suse/unit-at-a-time.patch
suse/ld-dtags.diff
suse/ld-relro.diff
suse/testsuite.diff
suse/enable-targets.diff
suse/use-hashtype-both-by-default.diff
suse/s390-pic-dso.diff
suse/suse-bdirect.diff
suse/suse-dynsort.diff
suse/suse-hashvals.diff
suse/cross-avr-omit_section_dynsym.patch

fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-ltconfig-multilib.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-ia64-lib64.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-standards.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-build-fixes.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-symbolic-envvar-revert.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.16-version.patch
fedora/binutils-2.17.50.0.3-kept-section.patch

mandriva/binutils-2.17.50.0.8-linux32.patch
mandriva/binutils-2.16.91.0.1-deps.patch

ubuntu/001_ld_makefile_patch.dpatch
ubuntu/002_gprof_profile_arcs.dpatch
ubuntu/003_gprof_see_also_monitor.dpatch
ubuntu/128_powerpc64_biarch.dpatch

lfs/binutils-2.17-genscripts_multilib-1.patch
lfs/binutils-2.17-posix-1.patch

binutils-update-062007.patch

Thanks for all your help!

Lastly, if anyone knows of any other distros that have binutils
patches, I like building the testing-toolchain-of-doom, if you haven't
noticed.

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