The binutils build notices that makeinfo is missing, but fails anyway, breaking the build. Make it stop. The "info" file format is obsolete (similar to "gopher"), was never used by anyone but the FSF, and failed to even replace man pages (which are now available in HTML). --- binutils-2.18/missing 2005-07-13 20:24:56.000000000 -0500 +++ binutils-2.18/missing 2008-08-11 02:05:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ fi # If the file does not exist, the user really needs makeinfo; # let's fail without touching anything. - test -f $file || exit 1 + test -f $file || exit 0 touch $file ;;