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

[Deepak Barua]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

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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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Hi Eric,
           Glad to see it was already solved.

Regards
Deepak


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