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Re: More: binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: More: binutils-2.17 build tries to modify distribution directory |
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Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:21:57 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) |
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:21:42PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
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> Hi again
> Regarding modifying the dist.directory, my "Not so bad, the build proceeds
> alright"
> below was optimistic. When the dist. directory is totally read-only (such as
> on
> a read-only disk, or wich "chmod -R go-w binutils-2.17"), the build fails at
> the
> step shown below. What is the point of building in a different directory, if
> the
> original directory still needs to be modified?
It was a bug - very hard to fix, because it came from Automake, not
from binutils. It will be fixed in the next release, or you can get a
snapshot.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery