binutils-2.14: gmake check fails on Solaris9.

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng hgs@dmu.ac.uk
Fri Mar 12 17:42:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Manfred Hollstein wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, 18:08:31 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> [...]
> > > So now with binutils from cvs what happens?  Errr, nothing: it
> > > builds but won't install from cvs:
        [....]
> > > ./install-sh -c .libs/libbfd.lai /scratch/local/lib/libbfd.la
> > > ./libtool: ./install-sh: not found
        [...]
> > ../install-sh.  I have no idea what went wrong with the configure
> > process to make it make this kind of mistake however.
>
> This looks like he's building in the src tree; I'm not sure if this

Yes, I am.  I will try otherwise now. Thank you.

> is supported nowaday, but IIRC, I always had similar problems like
src/binutils/README says
<quote>
If you have GNU make, we recommend building in a different directory:

	mkdir objdir
	cd objdir
	../binutils-XXX/configure [options]
	make
	make install

This relies on the VPATH feature of GNU make.
</quote>

Does this need to be revised to be stronger than a recommendation?

> this (install-sh or mkinstalldir not being found).
>
> HTH, cheers.
>
> l8er
> manfred
>
        Thank you,
        Hugh



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