Re: LYNX-DEV RE: Compiling Lynx2.7 with slang on UnixWare

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jason "PsychoSy" Sizemore wrote:
> 
> I GOOFED! 
> 
> I did the stupid thing of using the Lynx 2.6 autoconf file for Lynx 2.7!!
> 
> I deleted the whole thing and started over from scratch. Now, the only 
> trouble I have is when the executable is being created. See below for 
> yourself...
> 
> [snip]
> 
> cd src; make all CC="cc" MCFLAGS="-O -DUNIX -DUSE_SLANG \
[snip]
> Compiling Lynx sources
> Linking and creating Lynx executable
[snip]
> Copying Lynx executable into this directory
> cp lynx ..
> UX:cp: ERROR: Cannot complete write to ../lynx
> *** Error code 2 (bu21)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> For some reason, it's trying to copy the executable in the ".." 
> directory. In the Makefile, I defined it to be copied to my 
> "/home/Titus/local/bin" directory. I don't know where it's getting the 
> ".." directory from. Did I miss something??

There is internally a two-step process of copying, after everyting has
compiled:  first the executable is compiles in the src subdirectory,
but after that, at the end of `make <system-name>', it is copied to the
directory above that (the directory probably called lynx2-7 where you
invoked the `make'.)  From there, `make install' would copy the binary to
the place in the makefile you chose.

For whatever reason, the first copying fails, maybe you don't have enough
disk space.  But you should have a working lynx binary in the src
directory.  Just try to invoke `./src/lynx'.  You could copy that by hand
to whatever place you like.

   Klaus

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