[oe] [PATCH] fix do_install for MinGW gcc-canadian-sdk

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 16 20:54:36 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:03:03PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:

> When building a Canadian cross SDK for a MinGW host, installation of
> gcc-canadian-sdk fails, because it is configured using a Windows path
> as its ${prefix}.  Therefore it's not sufficient to use DESTDIR to
> install it; this leads to it being installed in ${DESTDIR}C: which
> is not where the rest of the recipe expects it.
> 
> This patch forces it to use the Unix ${prefix} variable, which has
> no drive letter, for installation.  I'm not 100% certain this is the
> right solution but it doesn't seem to break normal SDK builds.

Is this using the distro / machine you mentioned before?  This should
all be fine and we just end up making a 'C:' dir.  I'm very curious here
as at some point prior to pushing canadian stuff originally I had the
same patch, but on trying to confirm I needed it, I suddenly didn't need
it anymore.

-- 
Tom Rini




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