makeinfo fails on sparc with buffer overflow detected, causing other packages ftbfs

Binary package hint: texinfo

seen building libgcrypt11:

*** buffer overflow detected ***: makeinfo terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x18)[0x701b6098]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1054c4)[0x701b54c4]
/lib/libc.so.6(__overflow+0x50)[0x70131350]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x4e14)[0x70104394]
/lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x78)[0x701b5558]
/lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x24)[0x701b54a4]
makeinfo[0x319ec]
makeinfo[0x188f4]
makeinfo[0x1fe98]
makeinfo[0x29354]
makeinfo[0x2a498]
makeinfo[0x2bbdc]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x10c)[0x700d064c]
makeinfo[0x116ac]
======= Memory map: ========
00010000-00044000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 7406614 /usr/bin/makeinfo
00052000-00054000 r--p 00032000 08:02 7406614 /usr/bin/makeinfo
00054000-0005c000 rwxp 00034000 08:02 7406614 /usr/bin/makeinfo
0005c000-0018c000 rwxp 0005c000 00:00 0 [heap]
70000000-7003c000 rw-p 70000000 00:00 0
7007c000-7009e000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 7323798 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
700ac000-700ae000 r--p 00020000 08:02 7323798 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
700ae000-700b0000 rwxp 00022000 08:02 7323798 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
700b0000-70218000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 7323846 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
70218000-70228000 ---p 00168000 08:02 7323846 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
70228000-7022a000 r--p 00168000 08:02 7323846 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7022a000-7022e000 rwxp 0016a000 08:02 7323846 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7022e000-70230000 rwxp 7022e000 00:00 0
ffdf0000-ffe1a000 rw-p 7fefffd6000 00:00 0 [stack]
/build/buildd/libgcrypt11-1.4.4/missing: line 47: 25043 Aborted "$@"