Re: [Net::FTPServer] make install fails on Solaris

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:31:51PM -0000, Colin Robertson wrote:
> A quick bug report: Running "perl Makefile.PL ; make install" fails on
> Solaris 9 because of the command "install -c -D -m 0644 ftpd.conf
> $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf" for installing the config file if there isn't
> one already there. The -D option is not available on the Solaris version
> of install, so it fails at that point.

I think this patch should fix it.  I'm going to commit it to CVS.

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--- Makefile.PL 8 Feb 2004 19:21:55 -0000       1.4
+++ Makefile.PL 22 Feb 2005 16:15:54 -0000
@@ -291,8 +291,9 @@
 
 install ::
        @if [ ! "${NOCONF}" ]; then \
+          mkdir -p $(sysconfdir); \
          if [ ! -f $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf ]; then \
-           install -c -D -m 0644 ftpd.conf $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf; \
+           install -c -m 0644 ftpd.conf $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf; \
          else \
            install -c -m 0644 ftpd.conf $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf.new; \
            echo "Old configuration file $(sysconfdir)/ftpd.conf not 
overwritten."; \
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> colin
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/

So you use this at the Beeb then?

Rich.

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