Re: Building GNUstep on Solaris

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 19.01.2010 um 21:43 schrieb Andreas Höschler:

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

read the output carefully:

> 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'

did you spot this line? It tells you that you have some sort of  
recursion in your symlinks:

> /bin/bash: line 7: ./install-sh: Number of symbolic links  
> encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS

using Google I quickly found this: http://groups.google.com/group/ 
comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/9e574586058c5d79/ 
f632eecefbadef8?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8

> 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

thanks,

        Lars