small bug in egcs-1.0.1 install (solaris 2.5.1)
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Wed Feb 11 01:48:00 GMT 1998
In message < 34E0C6F5.4E73F986@eecs.umich.edu >you write:
> I just noticed a small bug in the install process for egcs-1.0.1 on sun
> Solaris 2.5.1.
>
> I perform the build as a non-root user, then do 'make install' as root.
>
> The directory
> egcs/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/egcs-2.90.23/include, and
> all sub-files, were not installed with the correct UID/GID or file
> permissions. They retained my non-root userID and groupID and their
> original permissions (from the user's umask), instead of being converted
> to root ownership.
GCC doesn't make any attempt to install those files with any particular
owner or permissions. This is normal and expected behavior.
> Also, there appears to be a dangling link in there:
>
> egcs/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/egcs-2.90.23/include/X11
>
> is a link:
>
> X11 -> ../X11/include/X11
Hmmm, sounds like a bug in fixincludes...
jeff
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