Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Emily Jackson <m5computing@earthlink.net>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:35:15 +0100
Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> wrote:

> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Hello Miles,
> 
> > I've fixed the most obvious boners.  Could you try again?
> 
> Better, but not yet :-)
> 
>  /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 gnus-tut.txt
>  /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/ima
>  ges/gnus-tut.txt
> /usr/local/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file
> `/usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/ima
> ges/gnus-tut.txt': No such file or directory gmake[1]: *** [install]
> Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/users/nk/cvs/gnus/etc'
> gmake: *** [install] Error 2

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who's had this problem. I can only
remember some of the errors I got:

In the gnus/etc Makefile, "ln -s . images" produces an error if you're
using freshly downloaded sources rather than just updating via CVS,
since the directory "images" exists.

More fun with the actual installation process: Commands like
"/sw/bin/install -c -m 644 *.xpm
/Users/emilyjac/share/emacs/site-lisp/../etc/images/gnus/*.xpm" fail
with "cannot stat file" or "last argument is not a directory" (this is
the GNU version of install from GNU fileutils).

I finally had to install the images and smilies manually; I think I'll
wait about 6 months before I try updating Gnus again. :-\

Emily

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Emily Jackson
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