<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I hope this will be fixed with:<div><a href="https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053">https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053</a> and <a href="https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4054">https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4054</a></div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 2 Oct 2017, at 6:33 AM, Ryan Scott <<a href="mailto:ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com">ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Trying to build a fresh copy of GHC HEAD (at commit [1]) today failed</span><br><span>for me with this error: [2]</span><br><span></span><br><span> /u/rgscott/Software/ghc4/libffi/build/missing: line 81: makeinfo:</span><br><span>command not found</span><br><span> WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.</span><br><span> You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or</span><br><span> any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.</span><br><span> You might want to install the Texinfo package:</span><br><span> <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/">http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/</a>></span><br><span> The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of</span><br><span> using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might</span><br><span> want to install GNU make:</span><br><span> <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/">http://www.gnu.org/software/make/</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>On my Ubuntu machine, I was able to work around the issue by running:</span><br><span></span><br><span> apt-get install texinfo</span><br><span></span><br><span>But I'm not sure if the texinfo requirement was expected or an</span><br><span>unintended side effect of recent libffi changes. Do you know what's</span><br><span>happening here Moritz?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best,</span><br><span>Ryan S.</span><br><span>-----</span><br><span>[1] <a href="http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82">http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82</a></span><br><span>[2] <a href="http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736">http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736</a></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>ghc-devs mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>