[LLVMdev] Install fails due to missing 'pax' tool

Reid Spencer reid at x10sys.com
Wed Feb 16 08:14:00 PST 2005


Vladimir,

I believe I've corrected this situation with version 1.299 of
Makefile.rules. It now only uses find and install to do the installation
of the header files. pax isn't used any more. Hopefully this helps you.

Reid.

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 04:18, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hello,
> I've just tries make && make install on a fresh CVS tree, and get:
> 
>    llvm[0]: Installing include files
>    /bin/sh: line 1: pax: command not found
> 
> Two questions.
> 
> 1. Why install process requires some nonstandard tool? Is it possible to get 
> away without it.
> 
> 2. autoconf/configure.ac has this:
> 
>    AC_PATH_PROG(PAX,  [pax],  [pax])
> 
> but Makefile.rules uses plain 'pax', not $(PAX). Why autoconf test is needed, 
> then?
> 
> - Volodya
> 
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