Re: Make errors

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Joseph,

* Joseph Maxwell wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:01:39AM CET:
> Installing libtool-1.5.24
> 
> make
>     libtool.texi:3733: Misplaced }.
>     libtool.texi:3734: Unknown command `command'.

Several things to say here:

Your makeinfo program (from the texinfo package) is way too old
to build the Libtool documentation.  For that, you would need to
update to at least 4.6, better to a recent version.

Alternatively, use could `make -k' and just ignore the error if you're
not interested in building documentation.

But building from the tarball should not cause the info manual to be
generated in the first place: it's contained in the tarball already.
Which system are you on, which `make' implementation and version, do
you have botched timestamps or are on an NFS with differing time stamps
between server and client?

>     libtool.texi:3734: Misplaced {.
>     libtool.texi:3734: Misplaced }.
>     makeinfo: Removing output file `./libtool.info' due to errors; use 
> --force to preserve.
>     *** Error code 1 (bu21)

Cheers,
Ralf