Error building binutils in riscv-gnu-toolchain target with GCC 4.9.4

[awxhw]

when building binutils, I met the errors as follows,

Can't locate Locale/Messages.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Locale::Messages module) (@INC contains: /usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib /usr/share/texinfo /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/x86_64-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 /usr/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.22.1 .) at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm line 49.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm line 49. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm line 50. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm line 50. Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/makeinfo line 101. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/makeinfo line 101. make[4]: [bfd.info] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd/doc' Making info in po make[4]: Entering directory/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd/po' ( if test 'x/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/riscv-binutils-gdb/bfd/po' != 'x.'; then \ posrcprefix='/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/riscv-binutils-gdb/bfd/'; \ else \ posrcprefix="../"; \ fi; \ rm -f SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES \ && (sed -e '/^#/d' \ -e '/^[ ]$/d' \ -e "s@.@ $posrcprefix& \\@" < /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/riscv-binutils-gdb/bfd/po/SRC-POTFILES.in \ | sed -e '$s/\$//') > SRC-POTFILES-t \ && chmod a-w SRC-POTFILES-t \ && mv SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES ) ( rm -f BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES \ && (sed -e '/^#/d' \ -e '/^[ ]$/d' \ -e "s@.@ ../& \\@" < /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/riscv-binutils-gdb/bfd/po/BLD-POTFILES.in \ | sed -e '$s/\$//') > BLD-POTFILES-t \ && chmod a-w BLD-POTFILES-t \ && mv BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES ) cd .. \ && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in:po/Make-in \ CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/bash ./config.status config.status: creating po/Makefile.in config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: executing bfd_stdint.h commands config.status: executing default commands make[4]: Leaving directory /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd/po' make[4]: Entering directory/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd/po' make[4]: Nothing to be done for info'. make[4]: Leaving directory/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd/po' make[4]: Entering directory /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd' make[4]: Nothing to be done forinfo-am'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd' make[3]: [info-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux/bfd' make[2]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux' make[1]: [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vagrant/source/risc-v/riscv-tools/riscv-gnu-toolchain/build-binutils-linux' make: [stamps/build-binutils-linux] Error 2

[jim-wilson]

On my Ubuntu system, I think this missing file is

rohan:2086$ pwd /usr/share/texinfo/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale rohan:2086$ ls gettext_pp.pm Recode RecodeData.pm TextDomain.pm Messages.pm RecodeData Recode.pm Util.pm rohan:2087$

So it looks like you have some texinfo/i18n/perl related missing package. The exact name and location may be different in other linux distros.

riscv-tools is poorly maintained and difficult to build. If you just need a compiler, you are better off using riscv-gnu-toolchain directly. This incidentally has a README.md file that tells you what packages you need to install before trying to build it.

[awxhw]

@jim-wilson , I‘m very appreciated for your answer. The probem has been resoved by switching perl version to 5.18.2, as my ubuntu version is 14.04.5 LTS.

[palmer-dabbelt]

This looks like a generic perl-related issue that's just been worked around by updating perl because whatever module is blowing up has been recompiled against the new dependencies. Lots of distros have perl dependency patholigies like this because perl code is so dynamic. It looks like this bug contains the set of dependencies that blew up: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154436

I'm going to close this as it's probably not RISC-V related, but feel free to reopen the bug if I'm wrong!

[advaneharshal]

On the similar lines I am getting the following error on cygwin while execting makeinfo checking for makeinfo... makeinfo Can't locate if.pm in @INC (you may need to install the if module) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/texinfo /usr/share/texinfo/lib/Text-Unidecode/lib /usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib /usr/share/texinfo/lib/libintl-perl/lib /usr/share/texinfo /usr/share/texinfo /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.32 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32 /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/5.32) at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm line 32. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm line 32. Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/makeinfo line 99. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/makeinfo line 99.

I am using the latest version of perl 5.32.1, Any idea how to resolve this issue.