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Re: INSTALL set incorrectly in gdb/doc/Makefile
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: INSTALL set incorrectly in gdb/doc/Makefile
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:16:30 -0500 (EST)
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200002270838.DAA25037@indy.delorie.com> <38BCDC1C.2917C1D6@cygnus.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone else see problems with the value of INSTALL in
> > gdb/doc/Makefile?
> >
> > In my case, it gets set to "../". I did a bit of digging, and it
> > seems that the reason is that gdb/configure uses ac_given_INSTALL
> > right before it recurses into gdb/doc, but ac_given_INSTALL is not set
> > anywhere except config.status, which runs in a separate shell.
> >
> > I initially thought it was specific to DJGPP, but the above seems
> > quite general...
>
> Trying a configure on a bsd system I see:
>
> $ grep '^INSTALL' gdb/doc/Makefile
> INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c
> INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
> INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
>
> > Am I missing something?
>
> I'm not sure.
How would people suggest to go about trying to solve this problem? It
looks like some Autoconf problem. Where would be a good place to ask
about this?