egcs-19981012: libf2c installation problem

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "DB" == Billinghurst, David (RTD) <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au> writes:

 DB> Compiled and checked as usual "make; make -k check"
 DB> Then "make install" rebuilds libf2c

Assuming `rebuilds' means actually recompiles things rather than just
recursing and doing nothing: that can happen if you don't start with a
clean build directory (for instance), since re-running configure
doesn't update timestamps of generated files if the files don't
change.  It's not clear to me what's the right thing to do; zapping
all the generated files initially in the make rules is easy enough,
but not by the book.

 DB> Cannot add further details without rebuilding whole distribution.

If it still wants to rebuild You should be able to figure out the
reason from `make -n -d' in $builddir/mips-sgi-irix6.2/libf2c.  If, as
implied above, the second build brought everything up-to-date I don't
know why and would need more debugging info.