Hi Benson,
The current binutils release 2.40 requires texinfo to build from source
because gas does not have .info files.
I believe that it does:
% tar tvf binutils-2.40.tar.xz | grep as.info
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 1220923 2023-01-14 00:00 binutils-2.40/gas/doc/as.info
Typically texinfo is only needed
if the .texi files are modified as releases should contain .info files.
But when you extract files from a tarball they all end up having the same
creation date, so the make system will believe that it needs to generate
the info files. If you touch the files first then the problem is avoided:
% tar xvf binutils-2.40.tar.xz
% find binutils-2.40 -name "*.info" -exec touch {} \;
Cheers
Nick
