Re: Makefile problem

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Anlodd,

> I am trying to install binutils-2.14 on RedHat 9 with make 3.79.1
> and make install returns following error:
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/anlodd/work/src/binutils-build/libiberty/testsuite'
> /bin/sh ../../binutils-2.14/libiberty/../mkinstalldirs
> /var/tmp/binutils/usr/lib
> /bin/sh /install-sh -c -m 644 libiberty.a
> /var/tmp/binutils/usr/lib/libiberty.an
> /install-sh: /install-sh: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [install_to_libdir] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/anlodd/work/src/binutils-build/libiberty'
> make: *** [install-libiberty] Error 2

Were there any errors reported when you ran configure in the libiberty
directory ?  In particular was there a message like this:

  configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in <list of 
directories>


> I seems that variables s and r in Makefile is not assigned properly
> and not exported to sub-make's. I can not figure out why.

Where are these variables defined ?

> Command used:
> ./configure --enable-shared

Note - for gcc and binutils it is generally better to configure in a
directory other than the source directory.

> make
> make -e DESTDIR=/var/tmp/binutils install

The installation of binutils 2.14 under RH9 has worked for other
people, so I am hoping that there is something specific to your
installation that is causing these problems.

Have you tried using these sequence of commands instead ?

  cd <sources>
  mkdir ../build
  cd ../build
  ../<sources>/configure --enable-shared --prefix=/var/tmp/binutils
  make
  make install

Cheers
        Nick