>Number:         26333
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       texinfo writes outside OBJDIR, breaking builds from read-only src
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 15 11:34:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lubomir Sedlacik
>Release:        NetBSD -current, Thu Jul 15 13:29:50 CEST 2004
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: Linux 2.4.25
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

while building tools (but not limited to), texinfo executes the following in
src/gnu/dist/texinfo/util/Makefile:

 texinfo.cat: texinfo-cat.in $(top_srcdir)/doc/version.texi
         sed 's/__VERSION__/@VERSION@/g' $(srcdir)/texinfo-cat.in >$@

resulting in:

 sed 's/__VERSION__/4.7/g' /www/src/NetBSD/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/util/texinfo-cat.in >/www/src/NetBSD/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/util/texinfo.cat
 /bin/sh: /www/src/NetBSD/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/util/texinfo.cat: Permission denied

 *** Failed target:  texinfo.cat
 *** Failed command: sed 's/__VERSION__/4.7/g' /www/src/NetBSD/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/util/texinfo-cat.in >/www/src/NetBSD/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/util/texinfo.cat
 *** Error code 1

 Stop.
 nbmake: stopped in /www/src/obj/tools/texinfo/build/util

>How-To-Repeat:
build -current from read-only src tree
>Fix:
generate the file in OBJDIR (patch not provided, sorry)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: