Hello, I was packaging glibc for the Arch Hurd yesterday, and I noticed that the `make install' command aborts for the latest git version. In particular, the following section of my generated manual/Makefile was problematic.
install: $(inst_infodir)/libc.info
@if $(SHELL) -c '$(INSTALL_INFO) --version' >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
test -f $(inst_infodir)/dir || $(INSTALL_DATA) dir $(inst_infodir);\
$(INSTALL_INFO) --info-dir=$(inst_infodir) $(inst_infodir)/libc.info;\
else : ; fi
install-info complained that libc.info was an empty file. I'm not sure whether
this is an issue with my system, with the ./confgure script, with some
component of my system, with libc.info, etc., but I know that changing the
fourth line to
$(INSTALL_INFO) --info-dir=$(inst_infodir) $(inst_infodir)/libc.info;
true \
allowed make to skip the broken section and continue.
After investigation, I believe that this was caused by me configuring and
making glibc out of tree (our install script creates works in directory
src/build, while the git repo is cloned to src/glibc). Within the source
directory (src/glibc) libc.info was present, but within the build directory
(src/build) it was absent.
So I guess the error, in brief, is that building and installing glibc from a
non-source directory succeeds - except for the manual/libc.info file.
Thanks,
Stephen Gilles
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