Diagnosing build errors

[Nigel Spon]

I am now building the toolchain and RTEMS 4.8 successfully (I think)  
from Xcode under MacOS 10.5, which is nice because it gives me an IDE  
and I don't have to use the command line anymore. However, one  
component of the system has proved resistant to this treatment.

The gdb 6.6 build fails at the final 'make install' stage. The last  
few lines of the log say:

make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
/bin/sh /Users/frederickspon/Documents/RTEMSX_4.8/RTEMS_Xcode/../tools/ 
gdb-6.6/sim/ppc/../../mkinstalldirs /Users/frederickspon/Documents/ 
RTEMSX_4.8/RTEMS_Xcode/Obj/bin
n=`echo run | sed 's,^,powerpc-rtems4.8-,;'`; \
	/usr/bin/install -c run /Users/frederickspon/Documents/RTEMSX_4.8/ 
RTEMS_Xcode/Obj/bin/$n
install: run: No such file or directory

I'm guessing that a substitution has failed, possibly because OSX is  
doing something slightly different c.f my messages earlier today about  
the 'find' command. The make is being done under the bash shell, *not*  
tcsh. I'm not sure where to look next to figure out what happened  
here. Its rather annoying to have it get so close to completing and  
then fail; I presume it was about to copy the results into the /bin  
directory.

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"No point in mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will  
see them soon enough."

Michael Hamel
ADInstruments Ltd, Dunedin, NZ