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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 19:13:46 +0200
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Subject: Re: GDB 5.0 is in pretest
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On 15 May 2000, at 18:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pierre Muller wrote:
> 
> > >   bunzip2 -c gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2
> >   At this point my version of bunzip2 
> > wrote all to terminal !!
> > -s is --stdout so this is expected !
> > Why did you add -c option here ?
> 
> Sorry, my bad.  Either "bunzip2 -c ... > gdb-4.95.1.tar" or
> "bunzip2 gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2".

Well, I didn't notice similar stuff, as I'm using bzip2 without much 
thinking (And it's not so hard to write 'bzip2 -d ...' as I'm usually doing)

> 
> > >   make install prefix=${DJDIR}
> > Failure :
> [snip]
> > D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./../mkinstalldirs d:/djgpp/lib
> > D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./libtool  --mode=install D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe
> > d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/install-sh -c libbfd.la d:/djgpp/lib/libbfd.la
> > libtool: install: `d:/djgpp/lib/libbfd.la' is not a directory
> 
> This is a known problem which I keep forgetting all the time.  For some 
> reason that I cannot grasp, the top-level Makefile insists on using the 
> install-sh script instead of the install program found by the configure 
> script, like all other projects do.  And install-sh does not work with 
> DJGPP (I forget the details, but if you look into it, you will see).
> So you need to say this instead:
> 
>  make install prefix=${DJDIR} INSTALL='ginstall -c' INSTALL_DATA='ginstall -c'
> 
> I was unable to convince the GDB maintainers to change the configury 
> stuff so that ginstall is used.  So I will need to write this up in the 
> README file.
> 
> Sorry I forgot about this when I wrote the message earlier today.

Strange. I was not able to reproduce this problem.
	make install prefix=${DJDIR}
works Ok for me (even tried multiply ways, but anyway failed to break 
it)

Andris