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RE: success (distclean), and almost success (make check).
- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu dot ac dot uk>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Binutils list'" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:30:16 +0100 (WEST)
- Subject: RE: success (distclean), and almost success (make check).
- References: <NUTMEG8TywMfgZUr3Cr000002b0@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
>
> > I have tried to replicate the problems that I seemed to have
> > with a build then make distclean in the source directory, and
> > than a build in a parallel directory. I am pleased to ba
> > able to report that this, when done without cvs update -d,
> > works successfully.
>
>
> Hooray! Success at last!
Thank you for your help and continued patience! :-)
>
>
> > The straightforward build, just using a parallel directory,
> > does fail one test for gas, but I don't know if that is significant.
>
> > Should I be concerned about this?
>
> Not immediately. For a start, that error was also present in your other
> build:
>
> --------snip--------
[snipped :-)]
> --------snip--------
>
> So you just overlooked the message. CFI is some kind of dwarf2-related
Yes, didn't see it with all the rest of the output...
> frame unwinding / exception handling stuff, IIUIC; it's still a bit fluid,
> and the occasional bug is likely to show up. If 64-bit SPARC is an
OK, that's fair eough for a cvs snapshot.
> important platform for you, you could always investigate.....
I don't know how to proceed further, though I'd be glad to
contribute test results if it will help.
The result for installing this in the afore-specified temporary
directory is, unfortunately a failure:
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/Scratch/hgs/binutils-cvs/build/bfd'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../../src/bfd/../mkinstalldirs /scratch/hgs/local/lib
/bin/sh ../../src/bfd/../mkinstalldirs /scratch/hgs/local/include
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install ../src/install-sh -c libbfd.la
/scratch/hgs/local/lib/libbfd.la
../src/install-sh -c .libs/libbfd.lai /scratch/hgs/local/lib/libbfd.la
./libtool: ../src/install-sh: not found
gmake[3]: *** [install_libbfd] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/export/home/Scratch/hgs/binutils-cvs/build/bfd'
gmake[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/Scratch/hgs/binutils-cvs/build/bfd'
gmake[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/Scratch/hgs/binutils-cvs/build/bfd'
gmake: *** [install-bfd] Error 2
See
http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/binutils-cvs-install-test.txt
for the full output.
>
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
Thank you,
Hugh