Re: Bug in install of gfortran for gcc-4.0.2

[Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 19:59, Jim Wilson wrote:
> Rainer Emrich wrote:
> >     rm -f /appl/shared/gcc/Linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-4.0.2/bin/; \
> >     ln /appl/shared/gcc/Linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-4.0.2/bin/gfortran
> > /appl/shared/gcc/Linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-4.0.2/bin/; \
>
> Looking at gcc/fortran/Make-lang.in we see that the command here is
>    rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(GFORTRAN_TARGET_INSTALL_NAME)$(exeext);
> and we also see that GFORTRAN_TARGET_INSTALL_NAME is not defined
> anywhere.  This code was copied from the install-driver rule in
> gcc/Makefile.in, and we can see that it defines GCC_TARGET_INSTALL_NAME
> to $(target_noncanonical)-gcc.  However, looking at this, I see that the
> install-driver rule has changed significantly since it was copied into
> the fortran directory, and as a result, there are also other bugs here.
>   For instance, fortran is setting GFORTRAN_CROSS_NAME from
> program_transform_cross_name, but this was deleted 2 years ago.  So this
> whole fortran install rule needs to be rewritten, presumably by copying
> it again from the install-driver rule and modifying it appropriately.
>
> I think we need a PR here to keep track of this.
>
> The install rule starts with a "-", so it shouldn't have caused the
> install to fail, even though it is wrong.  I haven't seen install
> failures because of this problem.

Wasn't this whole issue fixed by this patch:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-10/msg01785.html

Gr.
Steven