> Am 21.06.2025 um 08:45 schrieb James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org>:
>
> I guess I'm doing something wrong, or not enough. "make install" is
> failing after a bootstrap build because the build/fixincludes directory
> is empty. Edited for brevity:
>
> $ make -C build-boot/ V=1 install
> make: Entering directory '.../build-boot'
> make[1]: Entering directory '.../build-boot'
> /bin/bash ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/gcc-cobol /usr/local/gcc-cobol
> make[2]: Entering directory '.../build-boot/fixincludes'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '.../build-boot/fixincludes'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:4193: install-fixincludes] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '.../build-boot'
> make: *** [Makefile:2710: install] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory '.../build-boot'
>
> $ for D in build*/fixincludes
> do
> printf "$D: %d files\n" $(ls $D | wc -l)
> done
> build-02/fixincludes: 18 files
> build-boot/fixincludes: 0 files
> build/fixincludes: 18 files
>
> Until recently I always used --disable-bootstrap because faster.
> Lately because of the discomfort of my own petard I have added
> --enable-bootstrap to my repertoire. The build succeeds, but leaves
> the fixincludes directory empty, which means "make install" fails. I
> thought the issue was confined to building on macOS, but today discover
> it's true (as above) on Ubuntu x86_64.
>
> The configure invocation is nothing special:
>
> $ head build-boot/config.log | grep /configure
> $ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-cobol
> --disable-generated-files-in-srcdir --disable-multilib
> --enable-checking --enable-languages=c,cobol
>
> These are branches based on master, updated as of yesterday. (I have
> other examples without --disable-generated-files-in-srcdir.)
>
> A comparison of the mentions of "fixinclude" in config.{status,log} of
> two directories, bootstrap and non-bootstrap, shows no difference.
>
> What should I be looking for?
For why fixinclude isn’t built - the config.log therein might show something.
Alternatively you can configure with —disable-fixincludes IiRC
Richard
>
> --jkl
>
