Re: parallel builds failing in bfd

H. J. Lu
2003-05-29T13:51:56Z

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 06:48:32PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:01:48PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> >
> >>Every once in a while, when I do a parallel build from the top level,
> >>I get a failure that stems from bfd.h being built incorrectly. Do
> >>other people run into this problem? I'm not at all familiar with
> >>bfd's Makefile.in, so I don't know offhand what might be causing this
> >>problem.
> >
> >
> > It's an autoconf 2.13 bug unfortunately. It will be fixed after the
> > 2.5x transition, which is starting to gain a little momentum now.
> >
>
> BTW, are there any plans to transition to Automake-1.7.X &
> Libtool-1.5.X, now that they have stabilized? It sure would be nice to

FYI, the current binutils/gdb tree doesn't work with

# make install DESTDIR=foo

when shared library is enabled due to the libtool bug. I put a kludge
in my Linux binutils. I hope it gets fixed soon.

H.J.