-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Deepak Barua on 9/20/2008 11:12 PM: > Hi Everybody, > I was just cross compiling my MIPS64 platform when i > noticed a major error in coreutils - 6.12 the "src/ginstall" which is > compiled , is compiled in the target architecture instead of the host
As it should be - all of coreutils are built for the target. > , so i > had to recompile coreutils in host architecture and copy the "ginstall" > binary to "src/ginstall" overwriting the target arch "ginstall" and then the > "make install" commmand worked fine and coreutils was installed . Yes, that is a bug. Coreutils should only use the just-built ginstall for installation when doing native compiles, and not when doing cross-compiles. But it looks like this has already been fixed in git: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d990306 > > I saw that "ginstall" is a coreutils replacement for "install" , the thing i > don't understand is why , whats wrong with using "install" ...? Because 'make install' would then be ambiguous - does it make the executable named install, or does it install all of the executables? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjWSEEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYD0ZQCgz0eYMdn2Jms1GG5pkIdESnOV TAgAoKMItoZM5vs4wqiii/+DPh5Ngw+b =AFEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
