Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Reinecke
Hi, someone at the computing center just told me that the version of "install" that caused the problem was terribly obsolete and only got installed by accident. It has been removed now. If you want to add an autoconf check for this version, I can try to get a copy of the binary. But I'm not sure

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-03 Thread Martin Reinecke
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:25:28AM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:35, Martin Reinecke wrote: > > Unfortunately I have no way of finding out more about the local "install", > > as it doesn't accept the --help flag: > > Did you check to see if it might be a shell script? If

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-03 Thread James E Wilson
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:35, Martin Reinecke wrote: > Unfortunately I have no way of finding out more about the local "install", > as it doesn't accept the --help flag: Did you check to see if it might be a shell script? If so, there might be comments in it. If it isn't a shell script, then runn

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Stump
On Nov 2, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Martin Reinecke wrote: Is this a bug in my local version of "install", or could it be interpreted as acceptable behaviour? I'd call it a bug. Free free to recraft your environment to not feature that install. If it were a popular install, a check for it could

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Reinecke
Hi Jim, the problem lies in the command -$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) xgcc$(exeext) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(GCC_INSTALL_NAME)$(exeext) which on my machine evaluates to /afs/rzg/@sys/bin/install -c xgcc /afs/mpa/data/martin/ugcc/bin/gcc Apparently this special version of "install" in my path crea

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Reinecke
Jim Wilson wrote: Martin Reinecke wrote: i.e. the "gcc" binary ends up as "xgcc" in a subdirectory called "gcc". The gcc makefile install rule just does rm -f $destdir/bin/gcc install xgcc $destdir/bin/gcc If destdir/bin/gcc is non-existant, or a plain file, then this works as expected.

Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu

2005-11-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Martin Reinecke wrote: i.e. the "gcc" binary ends up as "xgcc" in a subdirectory called "gcc". The gcc makefile install rule just does rm -f $destdir/bin/gcc install xgcc $destdir/bin/gcc If destdir/bin/gcc is non-existant, or a plain file, then this works as expected. If destdir/bin/gcc