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Re: Build failure on Debian testing (cross to arm-none-eabi)
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> This reminds me ... in the past, I've had problems with binutils'
> habit of generating the documentation at install time. For instance,
> in a rather complicated environment where I built the software, then
> handed it over to a sysadmin for installation, and he didn't have the
> same $PATH as I did, and it blew up not being able to find either
> makeinfo or cc.
>
> GCC builds the documentation as part of "make all" - this works much
> better in that sort of environment, and would have caught this bug as
> well. What do people think of changing it?
I think it has actually been fixed a while ago.
That's what *should* happen. If it doesn't that's a bug.
(It's even a GNU coding standard item...)
brgds, H-P