Re: One version number, take three

[Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>]

Hi Zack,

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> > It's hard to be sure if the gccadmin scripts will work just right
> > until we deploy them, but they look OK.  Let me know when you've
> > checked in the patch, and I'll update the gccadmin checkouts.
> 
> Will be within half an hour, unless I get stuck behind someone's cvs
> tag operation.

Something is fishy with the patch.  The problem seems to be, that the 
top-level Makefile also tries to set gcc_version, or better the configure 
tries to set it from the version_trigger (which now is empty) and 
substitutes this into the toplevel Makefile.  So for me the Makefile now 
contains:

gcc_version = const

(I don't know where the word 'const' comes from)

The problem with this is, that this is used to set libsubdir, also in the 
toplevel Makefile.  And that one is passed down to the Makefile in gcc.  
During installation this directory is used to install things like 
crtbegin.o into.  So for me when calling make install from the toplevel, 
crtbegin.o is installed into
  prefix/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/const/
instead of
  prefix/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.1.0/
where it is (correctly) searched.

So, although the Makefile in gcc/ is correct, and would use the correct 
libsubdir, the toplevel Makefile makes this break.


Ciao,
Michael.