Re: Installation bug for AIX 4.3.2

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:41:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
> Cc: ghicks@metis.cAdence.COM
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> Problem with the configure file missing seems to have been solved.  At
> the recommendation of an IBM CE, I made an object directory that was
> not related to the GNU source directory structure.  This compiled OK.
> 
> I did a "make install LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc" (with a
> --prefix=/tmp/gcc-2.95.2a).  This compile worked.  Including the "make
> install".  
> 
> When I changed the --prefix=/tmp/... to --prefix=/usr/ngnu/gcc-2.95.2,
> things stopped.  When I used this intermediate compile to do the final
> compile and install, I got the following messages from the install
> phase:  (compile seemed to work OK - ie, it completed with no error
> messages.  The install portion did not work.) Any thoughts? For what
> its worth, nothing showed up in the 'prefix' directory.

>         gcc  -DIN_GCC -DHAIFA    -g -O2   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wl,-bbigtoc -o cccp cccp.o cexp.o intl.o prefix.o version.o  mbchar.o  obstack.o alloca.o      -lld ../libiberty/libiberty.a
> gcc: ../libiberty/libiberty.a: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> 
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
> 
> 
> Stop.
> # 

I have these suggestions:

1. Try using GNU make.  My builds never get even this far if I try to
   use AIX make...
2. It looks like libiberty was not built.  You need to see why.
3. /usr/ngnu does exist, right?
4. Try doing 'make' first, then 'make install'.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>