Build of snapshots failed on Solaris 2.6

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.GSO.4.10.9906280922590.27753-100000@turing.cs.hmc.edu >you wr
ite:
  > I am using a SPARC Solaris 2.6 machine, and I am unable to compile any of
  > the last three snapshots of egcs 1.95, or the current egcs-1.1.2 release.
  > 
  > When I attempt to build the 19990616 or 19990623 snapshots it complains
  > about not knowing how to build a system.h file in the texinfo/lib
  > directory.
This sounds like a buggy VPATH implementation in whatever "make" you are
using.  What "make" are you using.

  > I coppied the entire texinfo/lib directory into my
  > objdir/texinfo/lib tree and then tried make bootstrap again (this is for
  > the 23 snapshot, I have not attempted this on the 16 snapshot).  It next
  > failed on:
Don't do that.  You're just papering over the real problem (why did make not
find system.h) and will cause you more trouble later.  Far better to find and
resolve the real problem than hack around it and create a bunch of new problems
in the process.

jeff