egcs-1.0.3a, sparc-sun-solaris2.6: note on installation

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199805201910.PAA16443@rabi.phys.columbia.edu >you write:
  > 
  > `make install' does not set the permissions and ownership correctly on
  > the fixed includes.  It appears that these were tarred across and
  > expanded on the far side in `tar xplf' mode.  They wound up being mode
  > 600 and owned by the user I compiled as.
Yup.  The install procedures make little attempt to set modes/owners.

This is a bug, but it's not high on the priority list right now.

  > Also the PREFIX/TARGET/lib directory was mode 700; not
  > sure why.
Check the umask that was in effect when you did the "make install"

  > Why is PREFIX/TARGET created at all?  It seems redundant
  > given the existence of PREFIX/lib/gcc-lib/TARGET.
Cross compilers put lots of things there.  It's also helpful for
natives because things like gas and binutils will install binaries
into that location (as well as $prefix/bin).

jeff