bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

[Paul Eggert]

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?