Texinfo 6.0 cross compile makedoc error

[William Harrington]

I upgraded Texinfo 6.0 with no issues during pure 64 bit, but I don't think I used a 32 host when doing so. With Texinfo 6.0 I get this error:

/bin/bash: ../tools/info/makedoc: No such file or directory

It will be built with 64bit instructions.

Sooooo... we need to make sure that makedoc or the docs are skipped for install. Looking into this.

[William Harrington]

shovel through it and use:

Use

make -k

problem solved

[Martin Ward]

No problems here with a pure 64 bit build

[William Harrington]

If the host can run the target's binaries, then the problem won't be seen. It is when the host cannot run the target's binaries that it will be a problem. x86_64 64bit to x86_64 pure64 bit the problem won't crop up. 32bit x86_64 or x86 to x86_64 64bit where the 32bit host cannot run 64bit binaries, the problem exists. Texinfo attempts to generate and run the tools, but doesn't know it is cross-compiling or doesn't detect it, and builds the tools for the target and not for the host.

[Martin Ward]

Replying to kb0iic:

If the host can run the target's binaries, then the problem won't be seen. It is when the host cannot run the target's binaries that it will be a problem. x86_64 64bit to x86_64 pure64 bit the problem won't crop up. 32bit x86_64 or x86 to x86_64 64bit where the 32bit host cannot run 64bit binaries, the problem exists. Texinfo attempts to generate and run the tools, but doesn't know it is cross-compiling or doesn't detect it, and builds the tools for the target and not for the host.

Still didn't see any problems x86 32 bit to x86_64 pure.

[William Harrington]

Odd, I'm using a slackware-current build from 32bit for pure 64 bit and texinfo built fine. I had been using 32 bit debian hosts for testing. Well since I can't reproduce this, I'm closing it.