Unfortunately it isn't that easy on HP NonStop, I have to make quite a few modifications to get it compiled. Just found e.g. that in C99 mode it doesn't play along with my gmp-4.1.2 (so I either need to use configure --without-gmp or, maybe, upgrade gmp), whereas in C89 mode there are very many modifications to be done.
I didn't modify anything in the doc directory, only the configure script and several files files in lib and src. Regardless it did rebuild coreutils.info. I don't understand why, as in the tarball the .info is newer than the .texi Anyhow: I now have 2 fixes for that problem, I either remove these 3 "@/" or upgrade to a more recent texinfo -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:33 PM To: Joachim Schmitz Cc: 9...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info On 07/11/11 11:01, Joachim Schmitz wrote: > I didn't change the coreutils.texi, but 'make' though it needed to get > rebuild I don't observe that behavior. Can you show the steps that you can take, from a fresh tarball, to reproduce the problem? Here's how I tried to reproduce it: export TZ=UTC0 export LC_ALL=C wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.12.tar.gz tar xf coreutils-8.12.tar.gz cd coreutils-8.12 ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info ./configure ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info make ls -lt --full-time doc/coreutils.texi doc/version.texi doc/coreutils.info The 'make' did not attempt to run 'makeinfo', and each time 'ls' ran it output the same information: -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 764883 2011-04-26 14:10:24.000000000 +0000 doc/coreutils.info -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 93 2011-04-26 14:10:10.000000000 +0000 doc/version.texi -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 546233 2011-04-25 08:55:27.000000000 +0000 doc/coreutils.texi Could you please try the same recipe on your host?