[GCC-XML] make install broken
    Brad King 
    brad.king at kitware.com
       
    Mon Dec  4 14:38:39 EST 2006
    
    
  
Neal Becker wrote:
> I grabbed a brand-new cvs of gccxml, and on linux did:
> 
> 1. cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr
> 2. make
> 3. sudo make install
> 
> And where did it install?
> -- Installing /bin/gccxml
> -- Installing /share/man/man1/gccxml.1
> ...
> 
> What happened to my /usr prefix?
> 
> Also, make install did:
> Linking C executable CMakeFiles/CMakeRelink.dir/gccxml_cc1plus
> Linking CXX executable CMakeFiles/CMakeRelink.dir/gccxml
> 
> That's not nice.  Make install should never write to the build directory, 
> otherwise sudo make install won't work through nfs.
GCC-XML is used inside another project that has write access to its
repository.  A recent change to the implementation of the install
support to that project seems to have entered this project too and left
it in a broken state.
It should be fixed now in CVS.
Thanks,
-Brad
    
    
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