Re: lynx-dev installation problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:50:30PM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> after doing a make distclean and configure, lynx built just fine.  However,
> when I try to do a make install-doc, I get this error:

huh.  I hadn't changed that detail for a while.  
> 
> $ make install-doc                           
> Copying sample files
> (cd /projects/intranet/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-4 && tar cf - C[HO]* PROBLEMS 
> README samples test ) | \
>                        ( cd /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_doc && chmod -R 
> u+w . && tar xf - )
        the chmod here is supposed to make it so we can successfully
        copy onto existing files.

> /bin/sh -c 'for name in COPYING COPYHEADER; do \
>         cd /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_help && ( ln -s 
> /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_doc/$name . || cp 
> /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_doc/$name . );\
>         done'
> ln: cannot create ./COPYING: File exists

        ...but here - I think is the problem (nothing is removing the
        existing link).  Will have to think about this (worked on
        Linux).  I assume this is Solaris?

> cp: /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_doc/COPYING and ./COPYING are identical
> ln: cannot create ./COPYHEADER: File exists
> cp: /projects/intranet/lib/lynx/lynx_doc/COPYHEADER and ./COPYHEADER are 
> identical
> make: *** [install-doc] Error 2

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