Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] which Ubuntu version for MXE master branch?

[Hamza Alloush]

I would like to report that i have succesfully built gdb, the 'makeinfo' 
requirement in the log, led into a google search result that it's part of the 
package "texinfo"
this info was per: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/338317/what-is-makeinfo-and-how-do-i-get-it
so all it took is 
$ sudo apt-get install texinfo
to get it! now gdb is built, and the compilation is going foreward

even though i could not find this in Debian requirements in index.html

this is what i get:
apt-get install \
    autoconf automake autopoint bash bison bzip2 cmake flex gettext \
    git g++ gperf intltool libffi-dev libtool libltdl-dev \
    libssl-dev libxml-parser-perl make openssl patch perl \
    pkg-config python ruby scons sed unzip wget xz-utils

my other problem with Wheezy 7.8(stops at 'devil') still stands though,

Thanks
Hamza


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> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:07:19 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] which Ubuntu version for MXE master 
> branch?
>
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:48:00 +0200
>> From: address@hidden
>> To: address@hidden
>> CC: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] which Ubuntu version for MXE master 
>> branch?
>>
>> Hamza Alloush schrieb:
>>> currently is not possible to compile all MXE toolchain on Ubuntu
>>> 14.04.2 (it stops at gdb), which is expected since the requirements
>>> for a Debian derivative distro is one that uses latest stable Wheezy
>>> packages.
>>
>> Could you send your error messages to the list? Maybe someone could
>> have a look at it.
>>
>> Debian/Jessie is newer than Debian/Wheezy, so it should work. Also,
>> Jessie will become the new Stable after Wheezy, so we should fix any
>> issues with Jessie as soon as possible, rather than all at once when
>> Jessie is released.
>>
>> As a side note: A few weeks ago I was successfully building some part
>> of MXE on Debian/Sid (Unstable), so that shouldn't be a fundamental
>> problem, either.
>>
>> In short: You shouldn't use anything _older_ than Debian/Wheezy, but
>> newer systems should be fine and are always woth a bugfix ... as we'll
>> have to cope with them in the future anyway.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>> --
>> Volker Grabsch
>> ---<<(())>>---
>
> Hello, still here
>
> yes, i can share the log message from the build
> here is the final output where the error occurs(i'll try to link the full log 
> file):
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_947xE4EmfY0RpNjhEMmMtT28/view?usp=sharing
>
> /home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/missing
> makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000    -I ./../mi -I . \
>         -o gdb.info ./gdb.texinfo
> /home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/missing:
> 81:
> /home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/missing:
> makeinfo: not found
> WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
>          You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
>          any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
>          You might want to install the Texinfo package:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>          The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
>          using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
>          want to install GNU make:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
> make[7]: *** [gdb.info] Error 127
> make[7]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/gdb/doc'
> make[6]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
> make[6]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/gdb'
> make[5]: *** [install-only] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/gdb'
> make[4]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9/gdb'
> make[3]: *** [install-gdb] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9'
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/hamza/build/mxe/tmp-gdb-i686-w64-mingw32.static/gdb-7.9'
> make[1]: *** [build-only-gdb_i686-w64-mingw32.static] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hamza/build/mxe
>
> a reminder this is on Ubuntu 14.04
>