make install fails in current CVS

make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

Hi!

Current CVS fails to install for me:

cd .  && for p in gnus/*.xpm gnus/*.pbm gnus/*.xbm gnus/x-splash; do  echo " /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 $p /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/$p";  /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 $p /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/$p;  done
 /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 gnus/*.xpm /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus/*.xpm
/usr/local/bin/ginstall: installing multiple files, but last argument, `/usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus/uu-post.xpm' is not a directory
Try `/usr/local/bin/ginstall --help' for more information.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/users/nk/cvs/gnus/etc.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/users/nk/cvs/gnus.


norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Miles Bader]

Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> Current CVS fails to install for me:

I've fixed the most obvious boners.  Could you try again?

Thanks,

-Miles
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Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

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/images/gnus-tut.txt
/usr/local/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file `/usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/images/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


norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> > Better, but not yet :-)
> 
> Er, again...?

You're not going to love me for this ...

 /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 images/gnus/x-splash /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/images/images/gnus/x-splash
/usr/local/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file `/usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/images/images/gnus/x-splash': 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


One level of 'images' to many in the path.  At least it's another file
:-) 

norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Miles Bader]

Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> You're not going to love me for this ...

Oh well, it's what I get for `debugging by email'...

-Miles
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Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Emily Jackson]

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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Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> > You're not going to love me for this ...
> 
> Oh well, it's what I get for `debugging by email'...

Sorry, I've been away for some time.  There's still something strange
here.  A lot of error messages are coming.  Here's the last successful
step and the first failure:

 /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 gnus-tut.txt /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus-tut.txt
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus
cd . \
&& for p in images/gnus/*.xpm images/gnus/*.pbm images/gnus/*.xbm images/gnus/x-splash; do \
  echo " /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 $p /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/$p"; \
  /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 $p /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/$p; \
done
 /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 images/gnus/bar.xpm /usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/images/gnus/bar.xpm
/usr/local/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file `/usr/users/nk/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/images/gnus/bar.xpm': No such file or directory


Ah, now I understand.  The target directory is not created, yet.  IMO,
it also lacks a 'gnus' in its path:

/path/to/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus/images/
                                           ^^^^ here.

Does this help you?

Thanks,
norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Miles Bader]

Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> Ah, now I understand.  The target directory is not created, yet.  IMO,
> it also lacks a 'gnus' in its path:
>
> /path/to/site-packages/lisp/gnus/../../etc/gnus/images/
>                                            ^^^^ here.

That reduces to:

   $(etcdir)/gnus/images/

Which is the same target directory as Emacs built-in gnus uses for the
same images.  Should there be an _additional_ preceding gnus?  That
would require the lisp code to be different for Gnus-in-emacs and
Gnus-standalone, right?

-Miles
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 that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
 less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

Hi!

> That reduces to:
> 
>    $(etcdir)/gnus/images/
> 
> Which is the same target directory as Emacs built-in gnus uses for the
> same images.  Should there be an _additional_ preceding gnus?

No, $(etcdir)/gnus/.... is fine.

But, these directories have to be created, AFAICT (and I'll have to
clean up the current contents of my etc :-)).

norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Miles Bader]

Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
> But, these directories have to be created, AFAICT

Ok, that's fixed...

-Miles
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Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Norbert Koch]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Ok, that's fixed...

Thanks, it works now.

norbert.

Re: make install fails in current CVS

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Feb 19 2005, Emily Jackson wrote:

> More fun with the actual installation process: [...]
>
> I finally had to install the images and smilies manually; I think I'll
> wait about 6 months before I try updating Gnus again. :-\

If you can't bear this heat you should probably do what the manual
suggests:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Versions") ]
|    If you happen upon a version of Gnus that has a prefixed name -
| "(ding) Gnus", "September Gnus", "Red Gnus", "Quassia Gnus",
| "Pterodactyl Gnus", "Oort Gnus" - don't panic.  Don't let it know that
| you're frightened.  Back away.  Slowly.  Whatever you do, don't run.
| Walk away, calmly, until you're out of its reach.  Find a proper
| released version of Gnus and snuggle up to that instead.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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