On 02/02/2012 12:41 AM, Earl Chew wrote:
Some environments don't support symbolic links :-(
If ln -s is not supported, configure can figure it out, and as a last resort
uses:
LN_S = cp -p
I've found two problems with this.
The first problem is that LN_S is not propagated past the top-level Makefile.
This
can manifest as strange GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES messages:
Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES
The patch (against an older gcc 4.2.4) addresses this first problem.
The second is that:
cp -p $1 $2 mimics ln -s $1 $2
only if $1 is an absolute path, or $2 does not contain any path separators.
This is not always true. For example:
gcc/gcc/config/t-slibgcc-elf-ver: $(LN_S) $(SHLIB_SONAME)
$(SHLIB_DIR)/$(SHLIB_SOLINK)
There doesn't seem to be any straightforward way around this
except diligence:
cd $(SHLIB_DIR)&& $(LN_S) $(SHLIB_SONAME) $(SHLIB_SOLINK)
Additionally building in directory libada requires symlinking
directories, so 'cp -p' in not enough. I have tried to use there
'cp -pR' instead.
Andris
PS. I have not tested with 4.7 yet, but with 4.6 it was so