bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd) (12/19/89)
The Makefile from this tar off of prep:
-rw-r--r-- 1 14910 250959 Nov 6 18:08 binutils.tar.Z
has a buggy make install section. There should either be a comment
pointing out you need to go "make ... bindir=/usr/local/bin" or there
should be a define for bindir in the Makefile. In the make install
section:
install: $(PROGS)
for file in $(PROGS); do \
cp $$file $(bindir)/$${file}.new \
mv $(bindir)/$${file}.new $(bindir)/$file \
done
We need to add another "$" to the last variable substitution in the "mv"
line, like so:
mv $(bindir)/$${file}.new $(bindir)/$$file \
And finally, when I tried it, I got an error:
Script started on Tue Dec 19 10:27:38 1989
george[1] make install bindir=/usr/local/bin
for file in gprof ld size nm strip ar ranlib; do \
cp $file /usr/local/bin/${file}.new \
mv /usr/local/bin/${file}.new /usr/local/bin/$file \
done
/bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `end of file' unexpected
make: *** [install] Error 2
george[2]
script done on Tue Dec 19 10:27:49 1989
I dunno what's wrong. The make in question is GNU Make 3.57, built with
gcc 1.36. System is Sun 3/280 running SunOS 3.5.
Also, I don't know if this has already been reported; I was subscribed
to bug-gnu-utils for a while, but after a short flurry of messages I
seem to have been dropped from the list.
If anyone wanted to be so kind as to add me back on, I'd appreciate it.
-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu