LFS Problem

[xtjacob]

Hello, I'm trying to run the "make html" on mpfr in section 6.14 in the LFS-Book-6.5, but I keep getting the error, "/sources/mpfr-2.4.1/missing: line 54: makeinfo: command not found
WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The spurious
call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
DU, IRIX). You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
the `GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site.
make[1]: *** [mpfr.html] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/mpfr-2.4.1'
make: *** [html-recursive] Error 1
"
I'm using ubuntu 8.04.4 for my build system.

[Lakshmipathi]

You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
the `GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site.

Do you have "make" package properly installed ?

If you found errors LFS book report it to their mailing list
LFS Mailing Lists

which will help others too.

[xtjacob]

It seems to me that I forgot to run make install and when the problem came up it was too late to reinstall it, but I was still able to finish building the system because that was for documentation which is not needed to function.