From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Mark Klein Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: MPE Port Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <28223.936779766@upchuck.cygnus.com> References: <4.1.19990906103545.00c8b9a0@garfield.dis.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00269.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.reiBFe-J6-G_TuiX8Wxb07kkhgPX8QgAD6ejjcA0mb0@z> In message < 4.1.19990906103545.00c8b9a0@garfield.dis.com >you write: > Explanation: > > I'm not sure where this should go, but ... > > HP tar (more correctly, MKS tar) has bugs such that it will report that > it failed, even if successful. This install wrapper is to work around > that and allow a complete installation without being handheld. By chance do you have a functional cpio? If so you can change gcc/configure.in to use install-headers-cpio to switch to cpio instead of tar. jeff