Re: Build failure - makedoc - fallout from texinfo import?

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 06:05:54AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> BTW, this happens on both i386 and amd64...

and it seems to be a circular dependency:

texinfo/Makefile.inc ahd DPADD libcommon.a => all depend on common

but

texinfo/common/Makefile has
${GEN_SRCS}: ${MAKEDOC} ${CMD_SRCS}
MAKEDOC=${MAKEDOCDIR}/makedoc

so common depends on makedoc. chicken or egg? makedoc or common?

Cheers,

Patrick

>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>> {503} /build/tools/x86_64/amd64/bin/nbmake-amd64 dependall
>> #   compile  makedoc/makedoc.lo
>> nbmake: don't know how to make 
>> /build/obj/amd64/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/common/libcommon.a. Stop
>>
>> nbmake: stopped in /build/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makedoc
>>
>> *** Failed target:  dependall
>> *** Failed command: cd /build/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makedoc; 
>> /build/tools/x86_64/amd64/bin/nbmake realall
>> *** Error code 2
>>
>> Stop.
>> nbmake: stopped in /build/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makedoc
>
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