[Bug bootstrap/15668] New: install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[Bug bootstrap/15668] New: install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[fcusack at fcusack dot com]

(On Solaris, install-sh is used insted of the system 'install'; this
affects every platform where that is true.)

If configure is invoked via a relative path, the Makefile INSTALL
macro is also a relative path.  This does not work ...  This is new
in 3.4.0; previously a lot of gyrations were done to make install-sh
an absolute path.

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           Summary: install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.4.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: bootstrap
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: fcusack at fcusack dot com
                CC: dhighley at highley-recommended dot com,gcc-bugs at gcc
                    dot gnu dot org
  GCC host triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.9


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[fcusack at fcusack dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fcusack at fcusack dot com  2004-05-26 22:32 -------
Created an attachment (id=6390)
 --> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6390&action=view)
use absolute path to install-sh

This simple change is similar to the earlier gcc's setting.
I went ahead and fixed the path to move-if-change as well.
Also, since the docs have said for some time that srcdir should
not be equal to objdir I changed the test to give an error rather
than setup a special case.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[fcusack at fcusack dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fcusack at fcusack dot com  2004-05-26 22:36 -------
Could you also (or instead) update
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#*-*-solaris2>?

It claims, "proceed as described in the build instructions, where we
strongly recommend ... specifying an absolute path to invoke srcdir/configure".

- The correct place would be the configure instructions, not the build insns.
- I read both the build and configure instructions very carefully 3 times and
  found no mention of using an absolute path.

BTW, patch is tested to work (natch).

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-05-26 22:54 -------
Does it work correctly with setting CONFIG_SHELL?  If so then this is not a bug at all.

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |WAITING


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-05-26 23:01 -------
Not a bug, solaris /bin/sh is not really a full POSIX shell closing.

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             Status|WAITING                     |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[drow at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From drow at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-05-27 03:25 -------
Why do you believe this has anything to do with the Solaris shell?
This has been reported for binutils also and I don't see any indication that
the shell is responsible.  Instead it is a problem with the use of install-sh.
You can reproduce it on GNU/Linux by moving /usr/bin/install out of the way;
otherwise ./install-sh is not used.

Please don't close bugs without waiting more than seven minutes for feedback.

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[drow at false dot org]

------- Additional Comments From drow at false dot org  2004-05-27 03:28 -------
Subject: Re:  install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

I believe this is caused by including INSTALL in BASE_FLAGS_TO_PASS. 
I'm not sure if it will break anything to remove that; but if we're
going to do that we need to ensure an absolute path to install-sh.


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[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[fcusack at fcusack dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fcusack at fcusack dot com  2004-05-27 18:15 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> Does it work correctly with setting CONFIG_SHELL?

No.



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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[fcusack at fcusack dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fcusack at fcusack dot com  2004-05-27 21:52 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, since the docs have said for some time that srcdir should
> not be equal to objdir I changed the test to give an error rather
> than setup a special case.

oops, on re-reading the docs srcdir==objdir is explicitly ok (but not
recommended) so if you accept this patch you should obviously keep the
comment about "srcdir=." etc instead of exiting.  It'd be easy to test
if objdir is a subdir of srcdir, you might want to add that bit.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-05-28 02:01 -------
Please send patches to gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org after reading <http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html>.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15668

[Bug bootstrap/15668] install-sh is now based on $srcdir, make install fails

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-06-02 20:18 -------
This is a dup of bug 13993.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13993 ***

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE


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