On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 20:47 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > > Actually, looking more closely, the libiberty.a is the only one installed > > > that way (from the gcc sources). All others (for example libstdc++.a) > > > seem > > > to follow standard convention (32 bit in lib, 64 bit in lib/sparcv9). > > > Hmmm... bug in gcc-4.0.2/libiberty/Makefile.in? > > > > Bingo. :-) http://gcc.gnu.org/PR16513 > > I wonder how many more examples like that we need before we impose > testing after install and not in tree... > > Only consequence for the few who configure with --prefix=/usr from their > tree will be to change to --prefix=/some/user/dir so install doesn't > break the system if the tested compiler is not up to the task.
We can do this without touching --prefix, in fact, via DESTDIR and relocatable installs. It's just a bit disruptive to the workflow, so I wanted to wait until toplevel bootstrap was settled first. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
