9-2019-q4 toolchain compilation from sources fail

[jdobry]

We are try to compile GCC toolchain from sources and it fails with this error:

  ./How-to-build-toolchain.texi:223: epsf.tex not found, images will be ignored.
  ...
  /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
  Makefile:10: recipe for target 'How-to-build-toolchain.pdf' failed
  make: *** [How-to-build-toolchain.pdf] Error 1

Solution is install missing epsf.tex by command:
  sudo apt-get install texlive-generic-recommended

This dependency isn't noted in How-to-build-toolchain.pdf document

[Joey Ye (jinyun-ye)]

Thanks for reporting and the solution.

What is the build enviornment that you are using to build?

[jdobry (jdobry)]

Currently Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (same repository as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
But epsf.tex is new dependency which not exist on previous version. I know it because we must patch and re-compile every released GCC package till now (official packages don't contain big endian libs)

I don't use recommended Ubuntu 14.04 because it's after end of life date.

[Hermann Kleier (hermann-kleier)]

Same problem with

    Distributor ID: Raspbian
    Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
    Release: 10
    Codename: buster

The solution is to install the package texlive-plain-generic.

[Przemyslaw Wirkus (wirkus)]

Dear Hermann,
Thank you for reporting this issue. You can mitigate this issue by building toolchain with:

./build-toolchain.sh --skip_steps=howto

If you do not wish to build generate HowTo each time you build toolchain.

See:

./build-toolchain.sh

Usage:
  --skip_steps=STEPS specify which build steps you want to skip. Concatenate
                        them with comma for skipping more than one steps.
                        Available steps are:
                            gdb-with-python
                            mingw32
                            mingw32-gdb-with-python
                            package_sources
                            md5_checksum
                            howto
                            manual

kind regards,
Przemek