[Bug gas/32254] New: Build problems related to doc/asconfig.texi

[rdiezmail-binutils at yahoo dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32254

            Bug ID: 32254
           Summary: Build problems related to doc/asconfig.texi
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.43.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: rdiezmail-binutils at yahoo dot de
  Target Milestone: ---

I have been building a GCC toolchain for embedded ARM for years with this
makefile:

https://github.com/rdiez/DebugDue/tree/master/Toolchain

After upgrading to binutils 2.43 and 2.43.1, I have sporadic build errors like
this:

make
[...]
  GEN      doc/asconfig.texi
[...]
make install-strip
[...]
make[5]: Entering directory
'/home/rdiez/rdiez/arduino/DebugDue/SelfTestOutput/DebugDueSelfTest-2024-10-08~2/toolchain-with-newlib/Toolchain-Build/binutils-2.43.1-obj/gas'
  GEN      doc/asconfig.texi
chmod: cannot access 'doc/asconfig.texi': No such file or directory

Finding the cause is not easy. There are 2 things I noticed in the logs:

1) File doc/asconfig.texi is generated once during "make", and again during
"make install-strip". It is the only file which gets regenerated during "make
install-strip". I do not think that this is normal.

2) I compared the log with a previous successful "make install-strip" with
binutils 2.42:

make[5]: Entering directory
'/home/rdiez/rdiez/arduino/DebugDue/SelfTestOutput/DebugDueSelfTest-2024-07-20~2/toolchain-with-newlib/Toolchain-Build/binutils-2.42-obj/gas'
  GEN      doc/asconfig.texi
make[6]: Entering directory
'/home/rdiez/rdiez/arduino/DebugDue/SelfTestOutput/DebugDueSelfTest-2024-07-20~2/toolchain-with-newlib/Toolchain-Build/binutils-2.42-obj/gas'
  GEN      doc/asconfig.texi

Note that both lines make[5] and make[6] are largely the same. That is probably
not normal either.

Can someone help?

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