From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83txbx91f1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <63r47232fz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83y51992nd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392652860 6091 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 16:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 17:01:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQcz-0003tU-AE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:01:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQcy-0006j3-W3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQb6-0003nm-7n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQb0-0005hx-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQb0-0005hs-8s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQaz-0001Gt-Tt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:59:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16772 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16772-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16772.13926526934807 (code B ref 16772); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16772) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2014 15:58:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56731 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQaD-0001FT-Ci for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:58:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:42660) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQaA-0001FE-Qg for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:58:12 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1500M00DL28J00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:58:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N1500ELSDQ22S80@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:58:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85747 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:33:53 +0100 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Juanma Barranquero , 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 "/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 wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:23:06 +0100 > >> From: Dani Moncayo > >> > >> /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?