From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22884 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2003 22:16:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22864 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2003 22:16:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO purple.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.4) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2003 22:16:10 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk) by purple.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19bSex-0001jN-E9; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:16:03 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bSex-0004Dt-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:16:03 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:16:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk To: Phil Edwards cc: Nathanael Nerode , zack@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [top level] autoconfiscate INSTALL usage In-Reply-To: <20030712194306.GA2693@disaster.jaj.com> Message-ID: References: <20030712175800.GA898@doctormoo> <20030712194306.GA2693@disaster.jaj.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Cam-ScannerAdmin: mail-scanner-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-AntiVirus: Not scanned X-Cam-SpamDetails: X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Phil Edwards wrote: > Yep, see 11408. Fixing the lines in a subdirectory Makefile has no effect; > it must be fixed at the top level. (And the subdirectory ones should possibly > be removed to avoid confusion.) Except that the shared libgcc installation uses, or did use, the definition in the subdirectory Makefile - not through design to avoid an unsafe shell script using programs that might be linked against libgcc, but rather through fragile implementation accident because of stage submakes not getting the toplevel definition of INSTALL passed down. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg01327.html -- Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk