Re: [Pan-devel] Re: CVS compile error

[kevlinux]

I wound up copying a mkinstalldirs script from another application
source I had.  Worked like a champ!

Thanks


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:18:01 -0700, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> kevlinux posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
> below,  on Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:27:58 -1000:
> 
> > Finally fixed my 'automake' error, but now I'm getting this on 'make
> > install'
> >
> > bash-2.05b# make install
> > Making install in po
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kevlinux/CVSSRC/pan/po' if test -r
> > ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \
> >   .././mkinstalldirs /usr/share; \
> > else \
> >   /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share; \
> > fi
> > ../mkinstalldirs: ../mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory make[1]: ***
> > [install-data-yes] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/kevlinux/CVSSRC/pan/po' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 
> This is really beyond me, but that path looks funny.  .././ perhaps should
> be ../../, up two dirs in the chain, not one.  See where the script
> mkinstalldirs is located and adjust the path in the make file (which will
> likely consist of two concatenated make vars, thus the strange looking
> path after concatenation) accordingly.
> 
> Here on Gentoo for AMD64, I'll occasionally find an ebuild that probably
> works on x86, but does the wrong thing with the library path on amd64, for
> instance, and I have to correct it.  Back on Mandrake for AMD64 I had
> occasional similar issues.  Thus, I'm used to looking at such errors and
> attempting to make sense out of them enough to correct the build-time
> error, even if I don't regularly do CVS or really understand more than
> just enough to give me a few pointers in where to poke first in my trial
> and error fixing.  <g>
> 
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