GHC HEAD now needs extra tools to build libffi?

[Moritz Angermann]

I hope this will be fixed with:
https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053 and https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4054

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> On 2 Oct 2017, at 6:33 AM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Trying to build a fresh copy of GHC HEAD (at commit [1]) today failed
> for me with this error: [2]
> 
>    /u/rgscott/Software/ghc4/libffi/build/missing: line 81: makeinfo:
> command 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/>
> 
> On my Ubuntu machine, I was able to work around the issue by running:
> 
>    apt-get install texinfo
> 
> But I'm not sure if the texinfo requirement was expected or an
> unintended side effect of recent libffi changes. Do you know what's
> happening here Moritz?
> 
> Best,
> Ryan S.
> -----
> [1] http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82
> [2] http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736
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