Re: [BUG] coreutils-6.12 "ginstall" bug

[Eric Blake]

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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?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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