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I am trying to build glibc.a on our sequent (can you blame me given
dynix's glibc.a).  I have read every info and README file in the whole
package and I can't find anything like this in any of them.  My problem
seems to be in the make files.  Not being a gnu make guru I haven't had
much luck in closing in on this bug.  It seems that somewhere in the
complex structure of multi-makefiles someone is not setting the subdir
vars properly.  Here's an example:

$ configure seq386

Configuring the GNU C Library for `seq386'.
Object files, etc. will go in the directory `seq386'.
Using system-dependent files from directories:
unix/bsd/seq386

$ /usr/local/bin/make

make: fopen: seq386/sysd-dirs: No such file or directory
make: fopen: seq386/sysdirs: No such file or directory
make: fopen: seq386/sysdep-Makefile: No such file or directory
(echo define sysdirs; ./find-sysdirs < seq386/Sysnames; echo endef) > seq386/sysdirs
(for dir in `cat seq386/sysdirs`; do file=sysdeps/$dir/Makefile; if [ -r $file ]; then echo include "\$(..)$file"; else true; fi; done) > seq386/sysdep-Makefile
(echo define sysdep-subdirs; for dir in `cat seq386/sysdirs`; do if [ -r sysdeps/$dir/Subdirs ]; then cat sysdeps/$dir/Subdirs; else true; fi; done; echo endef) > seq386/sysd-dirs-tmp
mv seq386/sysd-dirs-tmp seq386/sysd-dirs
make: fopen: seq386/depend-: No such file or directory
(for file in sysdep.dep set-init.dep version.dep start.dep; do echo "include seq386/$file"; done) > seq386/depend-
make: fopen: seq386/sysdep.dep: No such file or directory
make: fopen: seq386/set-init.dep: No such file or directory
make: fopen: seq386/version.dep: No such file or directory
make: fopen: seq386/start.dep: No such file or directory
cd seq386; gcc -pipe sysdeps/unix/bsd/make-local_lim.c -o make-local_lim
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-sequent-dynix/2.2.2/cpp: sysdeps/unix/bsd/make-local_lim.c: No such file or directory
make: *** [seq386/make-local_lim] Error 1

$ cat seq386/sysdep-Makefile 

include $(..)sysdeps/unix/bsd/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/unix/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/ieee754/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/posix/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/generic/Makefile

Now I have found that when these makefiles try to run they use a
sysdep_dir var to find their sources from within the obj dir.
Unfortunatly that var is set for access from the root of the source tree.
I have hacked the problem by changing the file to:

subdir = seq386
sysdep_dir = ../sysdeps
include $(..)sysdeps/unix/bsd/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/unix/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/ieee754/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/posix/Makefile
include $(..)sysdeps/generic/Makefile
subdir = ""
sysdep_dir = sysdeps

Which gets these makefiles run but then other little things seem busted.
It can't find other sources or it has the .. problem again.  My question
is has anyone else seens this?  Is there a better fix?  Are my following
problems caused by my fix or just further bugs in the makefiles?
Thanks in advance for the help
-Chris
Chris Turbeville
turbo@cse.uta.edu