[Bug admin/179] New: Installation fails on binutils 2.15 on Solaris 8/9

[john dot carroll at usap dot gov]

When attempting to install binutils on a Sun Solaris 8 or 9 system, I get 
errors in the installation script saying that it can't find ./install-sh.  I 
have included the first and last errors that show up below.  I get a total of 
about 12 errors, all similar to what is shown below.  The final error is 
fatal, which causes all subsequent installation to stop, so the actual 
executables never get installed (which is why I am even concerned).  I have 
tried this on a clean install of both Solaris 8 and 9, with only GNU gcc 
2.95.3, make 3.80, flex 2.5.4a, m4 1.4, and bison 1.875 installed.

# pwd
/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15
# make install
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local /usr/local
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd'
Making install in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd/doc'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd/doc'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd/doc'
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/man/info
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 ./bfd.info /usr/local/man/info/bfd.info
/bin/sh: ./install-sh: not found
...
*snip*
...
/bin/sh ./libtool  --mode=install ./install-sh -c 
libbfd.la /usr/local/lib/libbf
d.la
./install-sh -c .libs/libbfd.lai /usr/local/lib/libbfd.la
./libtool: ./install-sh: not found
make[3]: *** [install_libbfd] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/GNU/binutils-2.15/bfd'
make: *** [install-bfd] Error 2

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           Summary: Installation fails on binutils 2.15 on Solaris 8/9
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P3
         Component: admin
        AssignedTo: drow at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: john dot carroll at usap dot gov
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179

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