Sorry to post this directly, couldn't find a bugzilla page for binutils...
The configure script is supposed to check for makeinfo >= 4.4, but the regular
expression used will fail for makeinfo >= 4.10 and < 5.0.
Current ebuild for texinfo is 4.11, so it fails.
Patch:
--- configure.ac.old 2008-09-09 12:35:56.000000000 -0500
+++ configure.ac 2008-09-09 12:38:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -2403,7 +2403,7 @@
# For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
# higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
- | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null
2>&1; then
+ | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.1[0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null
2>&1; then
:
else
MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
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