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Re: Solaris installation notes
- From: llewelly at xmission dot com
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos <papadopo at shfj dot cea dot fr>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 01 Jul 2004 06:20:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: Solaris installation notes
- References: <40E15B78.3050306@shfj.cea.fr> <40E36126.9040700@specifixinc.com><200407010806.22780.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:
> > I don't know of any reason why an absolute path to srcdir/configure is
> > required. I use relative paths all of the time. Perhaps there is
> > something about Solaris that requires an absolute path, in which case it
> > makes sense to put this in the Solaris section.
>
> Yes, 'gmake install' may fail to properly invoke install-sh if a relative
> path was used at configure time on Solaris. Not sure why, but a robust
> workaround is to use an absolute path.
Is this limited to solaris? I'm nearly certain I encountered this on
freebsd5.2 as well.