On May 19, 2005, at 10:01 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
... there are several non-fatal warnings like the following:
./mkinstalldirs /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex
make[1]: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied
make[1]: [install-nosearch] Error 127 (ignored)
This is strange, because /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/
etc/
is writable by me (artemio). The installation steps I followed were
the following: ...
This sounds more like ./mkinstalldirs could not be executed. Take a
look at its first line: do you have a shell with the given path
name?
Is its executable bit set?
After reviewing the make install output, I agree with you that the
problem is ./mkinstalldirs, since no directory under ~/.xemacs/
xemacs-
packages/lisp/auctex/ get installed. The shell in the first line
of ./
mkinstalldirs is /bin/sh, which I of course can run:
[tillina:~] artemio% l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 581636 Mar 21 00:39 /bin/sh