On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----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<http://home.comcast.net/%7Eericblake/eblake.gpg> > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjWSEEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYD0ZQCgz0eYMdn2Jms1GG5pkIdESnOV > TAgAoKMItoZM5vs4wqiii/+DPh5Ngw+b > =AFEL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > Hi Eric, Glad to see it was already solved. Regards Deepak -- Hack Hack Hack http://dbbarua.googlepages.com _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
