Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnu-doc package: failing to build glibc-2.7 info files

[Eric Padman]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:27 +0200, Christophe Jarry wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> To complete gnu-doc package, I need to build GLIBC documentation in
> info format. I downloaded glibc-2.7.tar.bz2 and glibc-ports-2.7.tar.bz2
> sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/. Then:
> 
>  tar -xjf glibc-2.7.tar.bz2
>  tar -xjf glibc-ports-2.7.tar.bz2
>  mv glibc-ports-2.7 glibc-2.7/ports
>  mkdir glibc-build
>  cd glibc-build
> 
> I tried two methods to build documentation:
> 
> - Using makeinfo:
> 
>    makeinfo ../glibc-2.7/manual/libc.texinfo -I../glibc-2.7/manual/*
> 
>   gives me the errors in the attachement named "glibc-makeinfo-error".
> 
> - Using configure + make install-info:
> 
>    ../glibc-2.7/configure
> 
>   gives me the error in the attachement named "glibc-configure-error".
>   The attachement named "config.log" is the one mentioned in
>   "glibc-configure-error".
> 
> Any information to solve this is welcome.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Christophe

I tried building by following your steps and got the some results.
apt-get build-dep glibc seems to solve this problem for me.

Cheers,
Eric (MentalNotes)