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Re: make install fails on 3.3 branch in libffi


Christian Cornelssen <ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> On x86-64 I just got this failure during make install:
>>
>> make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/aj/build/gcc/mainline/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libffi'
>> /bin/sh /cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi//cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi/../mkinstalldirs /opt/gcc/3.3-devel/lib/../lib
>> /cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi//cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi/../mkinstalldirs: /cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi//cvs/gcc-3_3-branch/libffi/../mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
>> make[5]: *** [install-toolexeclibLTLIBRARIES] Error 127
>>
>> The path to mkinstalldirs is completly broken,
>
> `libffi/Makefile.in' is generated from `libffi/Makefile.am' where
> mkinstalldirs isn't defined, hence we get Automake's definition.
>
> My guess is that Automake has not been invoked correctly.
> There is a difference between "cd libffi && automake Makefile" and
> "automake libffi/Makefile".  The second would normally be correct,
> but in GCC things may be more difficult.  (I haven't tried that yet.)

Alexandre, can you have a look, please?

Thanks,
Andreas
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