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bootstrap/8018: 'install-headers-dir' should default to 'install-headers-cp'
- From: raul at pleyades dot net
- To: gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:49:32 +0200
- Subject: bootstrap/8018: 'install-headers-dir' should default to 'install-headers-cp'
>Number: 8018
>Category: bootstrap
>Synopsis: 'install-headers-dir' should default to 'install-headers-cp'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 24 03:46:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: 3.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: Linux DervishD 2.4.18 #1 Thu Jul 25 16:31:49 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --with-cpp-install-dir=lib --enable-languages=c --disable-multilib
>Description:
When installing, make aborts because I don't have 'tar' on my system and
it insists on installing header files using tar instead of cp. I don't have
a tar on my system because I follow SuSv3 and POSIX and have 'pax' instead.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just build normally but without a 'tar' binary on the system
>Fix:
Adding 'pax' support (and detection...), adding 'tar' detection and, if
not found, default to 'cp' or just default to 'cp' (the best, IMHO) in file
gcc/config.gcc, variable 'install_headers_dir'. Or better, am I missing a
way of modifying this variable in the build process (the submake on gcc dir
doesn't allow me to override the variable in the Makefile proper)?
Thanks a lot :)
Raśl
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