From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com
Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:58:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txbx91f1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0hdOSuhOL2S5BO=amq9iAm5hSum47FFw3oEwyfNuv+XDg@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:33:53 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 16772@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Sorry, I don't understand: did you specify DESTDIR, or didn't you? If
> > you did, please show the full "make install" command line you used.
>
> As I said:
>
> >> > I've tried the patch: I've gone to the build directory and done "make
> >> > install prefix='../myinstalldir' GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=". The process
> >> > has ended up this way:
There's no DESTDIR anywhere in sight here.
> AFAIK, this is the way to specify the destination directory in "make
> install" (using the "prefix" parameter).
You explicitly mentioned DESTDIR, not "destination directory":
> The problem, I think, is that $(DESTDIR) contains literally the prefix
> I gave ("../myinstalldir"), which is a relative path (to the "current"
> directory - at the moment of the "make install"), but since we are now
> in "nt/Makefile", the current working directory is "<build-dir>/nt",
> and therefore, relative references like this one don't refer to the
> intended location.
So I thought you were using DESTDIR on the Make command line. It now
turns out you didn't use DESTDIR at all.
You also said that the target directory existed when the error was
reported:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:23:06 +0100
> >> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> /bin/install -c -m 644 README.W32
> >> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/share/emacs/24.3.50"
> >> /bin/install: cannot stat `README.W32': No such file or directory
> >
> > Does the target directory
> > "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/share/emacs/24.3.50"
> > exist at that point?
>
> Yes, it does.
So how come now it does NOT exist?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-16 21:23 Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows Dani Moncayo
2014-02-16 21:40 ` bug#16772: " Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 2:20 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-17 2:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 11:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 12:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 14:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 15:06 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 15:06 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 15:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 15:29 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 15:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 16:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 15:33 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-17 16:16 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 18:00 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-17 18:57 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 19:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 19:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 19:09 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 21:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 19:06 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-17 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-17 19:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-17 4:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 11:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-02-17 12:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 11:42 ` Dani Moncayo
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