When installing G4 I got the message that errors were probably encountered during the installation and that the log-file should be checked. Doing so reveals no errors at all, three warning messages and some "skipping"-messages from the linker (compare to bug report no. 697) are the only "unusual" events encountered. Do the warnings or the "skipping incompatible libraries"-messages cause the installation error message? When rerunning "Configure -install" no new libraries are built, nothing new is compiled or compiled/linked again but the message changes to the "successfully installed"-message. Is this a bug or is that quite normal? Wolfram Stiller
This is a known limitation of the parsing-stage for errors in the Configure script, which may resolve as errors some warnings that may show up. Assigned to the Configure script developer.
It's normal and it's indeed a limitation. The script don't check format of all messages (which are different on most of the platforms) but checks the existance of some additional messages. The second time you did not get warnings during compilation (because it was compiled by first pass) so there was no any additional messages. But probably in future we will introduce more clever "error/warnings" parsing depending on platform.
