Re: More: binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:21:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi again > Regarding modifying the dist.directory, my "Not so bad, the build proceeds > alright" > below was optimistic. When the dist. directory is totally read-only (such as > on > a read-only disk, or wich "chmod -R go-w

More: binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory

2007-04-19 Thread anirkko
What is the point of building in a different directory, if the original directory still needs to be modified? Arto > From anirkko Thu Apr 19 10:25:16 2007 > To: bug-binutils@gnu.org > Subject: binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory > > > Hi > When building b

binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory

2007-04-19 Thread anirkko
Hi When building binutils-2.17 in a different obj directory (as recommended), with the original distribution directory write protected/owned by a different user, one notices that the build process tries to modify the distribution directory (with messages such as "Permission denied" and "touch: can