[pylucene-dev] Unable to install PyLucene-2.0 on Fedora Core 4

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Greg Kuperberg wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:28:59PM -0800, Andi Vajda wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Greg Kuperberg wrote:
>>> The first problem was that neither libstdc++.so.6 nor libgcc_s.so.1 were
>>> linked properly in /usr/lib with this configuration.  The Makefile erased
>> erased ? how so ?
>
> If you say:
>
>    install A B
>
> then the program erases B and *then* copies A to B.  If A = B, then
> it erases B and can't find A.  If both $PREFIX and $GCJ_HOME
> are set to /usr, then the Makefile ends up running
>
>    install /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
>
> So it erases what it wants to install.

Ouch, I should check for that condition...

Andi..