RE: Installing GNU Packages on Sun

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Glynn Smith [mailto:glynnsmith@belobox.com]
>Sent: 13 February 2002 22:52
>To: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: Installing GNU Packages on Sun
>
>
>Has anyone else experienced problems with the install script on Sun OS
>when attempting to install GNU packages?
>I'm not sure if this is the best forum to ask this Sun Specific
>question.
>
>My ultimate goal is to build an m68k cross compiler on Sun OS 5.8.  In
>the process of building the supporting tools, make, binutils, 
>gcc etc. I
>discovered make install does not work.  The following is a 
>sample of the
>error I am getting.  It seems that the install command generated by the
>make results in the install script on Sun generating a cp command with
>the parameters reversed.  It is trying to copy from /usr/local/bin to
>the development directory.
>
>Is there a quick fix for this or am I going to have to start messing
>with the install script or the makefiles for all the packages I want to
>build?
>
>sun:/home/gnu/make-3.79> make install-exec
>Making install-exec in glob
>Making install-exec in i18n
>/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
>  //etc/install -c  make /usr/local/bin/make
>cp: cannot create make/make: Not a directory
>install: cp /usr/local/bin/make make/make failed
>*** Error code 2
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-binPROGRAMS'
>Current working directory /home/gnu/make-3.79
>*** Error code 1
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-exec-recursive'
>sun:/home/gnu/make-3.79>


  I did this a couple of years ago; specifically, I built make 3.79 on
Solaris.  I no longer have access to the machine, but it worked ok for me;
I don't remember having to do any radical surgery on the source.

  I don't understand why you're using the target "install-exec".  Why
aren't you doing a "make install" ?  Have you tried it but just chosen
not to show us ?

  In any case, I suspect your problems will vanish if you do the "make
install" while logged in as root.  It's almost certainly a perms problem.
Or you might be able to set --prefix= to somewhere that whatever user you
are logged in as has full access.


       DaveK
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