Re: Problem faced in building binutil

[Meena]

Hi Nick,

I need one more clarification which was missed earlier.

> ../../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.
> 
> 
> 

Is this problem is specific to ubuntu linux client? This is because We
are not getting this error on cygwin client. I am currently working on
ubuntu 8.10 intrepid. 

Could you please tell from where I can get the updated source?

Thanks in advance.

Meena



On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:32 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 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 files are out of date.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
> 
>