[Bug binutils/28909] New: 2.38 tarball (once again) requires makeinfo

[m-srcware at bodyfour dot uk]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28909

            Bug ID: 28909
           Summary: 2.38 tarball (once again) requires makeinfo
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.38
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: m-srcware at bodyfour dot uk
                CC: vapier at gentoo dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Similar to what affected 2.34 (#25491) but new:

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make[4]: Entering directory '/home/mitch/binutils-2.38/gas'
  GEN      doc/asconfig.texi
  MAKEINFO doc/as.info
/home/mitch/binutils-2.38/missing: 81: makeinfo: 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/>
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1466: doc/as.info] Error 127

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Because there isn't a doc/.dirstamp file, the tarball's gas/Makefile.in always
decides to re-generate doc/asconfig.tex   After that, doc/as.info is
out-of-date so it tries to rebuild that, failing if makeinfo isn't installed.

Doing...
  $ touch -d2020-01-01 gas/doc/.dirstamp
...before building avoids the issue.

I suspect the root cause was the recent reorganization of the gas docs:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=bde299e063de090bf36c1fe51874d1e9f4d94c3c

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