From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:23:50 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E495BD6.8030701@ihs.com> References: <84k7g9jxte.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044995095 17437 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 20:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18igxa-0004X1-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18igyd-00078y-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:25:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044995026 45035745 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110064 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6568 Kai Großjohann wrote: > When compiling Emacs from the CVS sources, then doing "make install", > I get errors (warnings?) like this: > > * Ada mode: (ada-mode). Emacs mode for editing Ada code. > install-info(/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/ada-mode): replacing existing dir entry for `ada-mode' > cp: cannot create regular file `/var/backups/infodir.bak': Permission denied > install-info(/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/ada-mode): couldn't backup /home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: No such file or directory > > Suggestions? Find out why install-info is referencing /var/backups. It's probably being passed explicity from the Makefile, so perhaps its a configure parameter. It does seem odd that it has apparently ignored your --prefix=/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0 parameter, though. -- Kevin Rodgers