Re: Can't run "install-strip" in binutils 2.18 ... ?

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:31 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > > It looks like the top-level makefile in binutils doesn't grok the > > install-strip target. > > Correct. If you are really miffed by this, please file a bug report at > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/. OK thanks! > > However if I look a

Can't run "install-strip" in binutils 2.18 ... ?

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
Is there another/better way to do this? I wanted to have the binutils tools stripped when they are installed. Typically for autoconfiscated environments I run "make install-strip" to do this. For binutils if I try this I get: make: *** No rule to make target `install-strip'. Stop. It looks li

Re: Build error with binutils 2.18: requires makeinfo but shouldn't

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 16:57 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > For 2.18, it's revision 1.1.18.1 of elf.texi. I had to go into the > Attic to find it. Cvsweb does not appear to do The Right Thing for > files that do not exist on trunk. Oh blerg. OK, thanks. Still and all, it's something that wou

Re: Build error with binutils 2.18: requires makeinfo but shouldn't

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:59 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > The release branch has the generated files in it. This is how > binutils releases have traditionally been managed. It's the snapshots > before the final release that cause this problem. Hi Daniel; I don't think this is true, at least

Build error with binutils 2.18: requires makeinfo but shouldn't

2008-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
There are some problems with the released tarball for binutils 2.18, which make it impossible to build unless you have a proper version of makeinfo installed on your system. I've seen the problems reported that a specific version of makeinfo is required, but this bug is not about that: a correctly