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Re: [top level] autoconfiscate INSTALL usage
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, zack at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:15:59 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: [top level] autoconfiscate INSTALL usage
- References: <20030712175800.GA898@doctormoo> <20030712194306.GA2693@disaster.jaj.com>
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Yep, see 11408. Fixing the lines in a subdirectory Makefile has no effect;
> it must be fixed at the top level. (And the subdirectory ones should possibly
> be removed to avoid confusion.)
Except that the shared libgcc installation uses, or did use, the
definition in the subdirectory Makefile - not through design to avoid an
unsafe shell script using programs that might be linked against libgcc,
but rather through fragile implementation accident because of stage
submakes not getting the toplevel definition of INSTALL passed down.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg01327.html
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk