Re: GDB writes into its source tree during the build

[Andrew Cagney]

> I checked out a current GDB source tree from
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/src and tried to build it.
> I got this during the build:
>
>   make[3]: Entering directory `/d/scratch/jik/cygwin-gdb/bfd/po'
>   file=/u/jik/cygwin-cvs/src/bfd/po/`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
>     && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /bin/msgfmt -o $file 
> /u/jik/cygwin-cvs/src/bfd/po/fr.po
>   error while opening "/u/jik/cygwin-cvs/src/bfd/po/fr.gmo" for writing: 
> Permission denied
>   make[3]: *** [fr.gmo] Error 1
>
> The process doing the build does not have write access to my source
> tree.  It shouldn't need it -- "make all" builds should never write to
> the source tree.  If there needs to be code that writes to the source
> tree, it needs to be a separate, special-purpose target.


The problem is actually in binutils's BFD.  I've forwarded your e-mail.

Andrew