(forw) Re: your reported configure problem

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "KRG" == Kaveh R Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:

 KRG> 	The problem I am seeing is that configure can't find install-sh. 
 KRG> This happens on any platform where the target multilibbed stuff goes
 KRG> three or more directories deep.  On my mips-sgi-irix6.2 platform, it
 KRG> happens in mips-sgi-irix6.2/mabi=64/libf2c/, but it also happens in
 KRG> other (/pic/, etc) directories on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 and
 KRG> powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 and probably other platforms that have wacky
 KRG> multilib combinations. 

I bootstrapped successfully on mips-sgi-irix6.4, rs6000-ibm-aix4.1.4.0
and sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3 last night/today from sources of yesterday.
Admittedly this was after a small change to libf2c/Makefile.in, but it
was working before that.  (These are native builds with default
configures and (a clean) builddir != srcdir, if it matters.)

 KRG> 	The reason three directories deep is an issue 

I don't understand how it can be if the library gets built.

 KRG> is because of the autoconf macro AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT.
 KRG> (This macro is referenced by AC_PROG_INSTALL and
 KRG> AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, both of which are called in
 KRG> libf2c/configure.in.)  The macro looks like this:

 >> AC_DEFUN(AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT,
 >> [AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS($srcdir $srcdir/.. $srcdir/../..)])

But $srcdir has to be <mumble>/egcs/libf2c, and $srcdir/../install-sh,
i.e. <mumble>/egcs/install-sh, exists does it not?

Sorry, I'm at a loss.  If you think the configure o/p or config.log
might help, feel free to mail them to me.