Re: bug when installing gnome-do plugins?

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Daygan Sobotka<address@hidden> wrote:
> When attempting to install gnome-do plugins on my 64-bit Ubuntu O.S. I run
> into this problem

First, thank you for including both the background information and the
precise output you saw.   This is very helpful.

> at the "sudo make install" command:
>
> /usr/bin/install -c -d //usr/local/lib/gnome-do/plugins
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -t //usr/local/lib/gnome-do/plugins
> /usr/bin/install: missing file operand
> Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.
> make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1


The install command needs two non-option arguments; the file you want
to install and the location in which you want to install it.   In this
case you can see that the install command only gets one non-option
argument.  Interestingly, the single argument seems to be the
destination, not the thing to install.

I can only assume from the above that the Makefile finds that it has
no data files that it wants to install in
//usr/local/lib/gnome-do/plugins.   Unfortunately, the coreutils folks
only write the program called "install".   We don't know what the
gnome-do maintainers put in their Makefile, or why.

My guess at this stage is that you didn't do anything wrong, you're
just seeing a bug (or perhaps a portability problem) in the Makefile.
 I suggest that you take this up with the authors of
gnome-do-plugins-0.8.2.  I don't know how you would contact them, but
I'm sure that the package comes with a README file telling you where
you can get help.


As for the remaining messages you included (quoted again below), they
simply indicate that after "make" experienced the failure shown above,
it stopped.   It was useful for you to include them, but in this case
they don't tell us much extra information (except for telling me the
name of the package you are trying to install).

> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/daygan/Desktop/gnome-do-plugins-0.8.2/BundledLibraries'
> make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/daygan/Desktop/gnome-do-plugins-0.8.2/BundledLibraries'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/daygan/Desktop/gnome-do-plugins-0.8.2/BundledLibraries'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> I'm really not certain if this is a bug or just something due to an error on
> my own part.. but I thought I'd report it just in case. If you have any
> suggestions for me to correct this issue, they would certainly be welcome.

I think it may well be a bug in the Makefile, as I mentioned earlier.
Check the README file that came with it to figure out how to contact
the gnome-do-plugins-0.8.2 folks.

Sorry I couldn't directly solve your problem,

James.