Re: Building GNUstep on Solaris

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Truls,

thanks for the response:

> > I also tried several versions of libffi but "make install" always 
> > fails with
> >
> > test -z "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include" || .././install-sh -c -d
> > "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include"
> >  ./install-sh -c -m 644 ffi.h ffitarget.h
> > '/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> > /bin/bash: line 7: ./install-sh: No such file or directory
> > make[2]: *** [install-nodist_includesHEADERS] Error 127
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > I checked out install-sh to see whether I could copy the files 
> > manually but
> > this script is so long,... I gave up on this one! :-(
>
> To me, it seems that bash messes up the path to install-sh and tries
> to execute it in /usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include, did you try
> symlinking it there?

Yes!

        pwd
/usr/src/libffi-3.0.9

        ln -s install-sh /usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include

        make install
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include" || .././install-sh -c -d 
"/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include"
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 ffi.h ffitarget.h 
'/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include'
/bin/bash: line 7: ./install-sh: Number of symbolic links encountered 
during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
make[2]: *** [install-nodist_includesHEADERS] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

        ls -l install-sh
-rwxrwxr-x   1 500      500         9231 Dec 31 13:38 install-sh

I don't get that!?

Regards,

 Andreas