tech-install: Re: sysinst, menuc & msgc and DESTDIR builds

Subject: Re: sysinst, menuc & msgc and DESTDIR builds
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-install
Date: 10/23/2000 10:14:10

>  > It seems the old menuc and msgc files are picked up when doing a DESTDIR
>  > build. Any objections to compile the patch below?
> 
> Yes.  You can't run DESTDIR's menuc(1), because you might be
> cross-compiling.

A correct patch would build a special menuc, etc., for a DESTDIR build
out of the current source tree with *HOST* tools.  This would require
menuc to be built twice: one with host tools, one with target tools..

						- Bill