Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:51:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mark S. Teel" <mteel AT texoma DOT net>
cc: DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Difficulty re-building gcc
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mark S. Teel wrote:

> :archive; and (2) the install: target of the Makefile in the gcc 
> :distribution, which should show you exactly which files it moves to which 
> :directories.
> 
> I ran configure from the ./config/msdos directory and then ran make, but
> the install 
> target was not executed.  When I do make install, I get the following
> error:

I didn't tell you should run make install, only to look at the install
target and see what it wants to install.  That's because that target was 
not ported to native DOS tools, and will never run with stock 
COMMAND.COM, it needs a Unix shell.

> I would think many people have rebuilt gcc,

Yes, but they all install programs by hand, so it seems.  The problem is
that on MSDOS there's no standard directories where people kepp their
packages, and COMMAND.COM is too dumb to allow you to find such
directories from a batch file.  So people just COPY or MOVE or whatever
from the DOS prompt.  If you really need to run make install (I don't
think so), you will have to install the port of `bash' and a bunch of
auxiliary packages (Fileutils, Textutils, Sh-utils etc.) and then make
install will work.  But just looking at the install target should be
enough.  If you can't figure it out, send me the entire Makefile and I
will tell you what it installs.