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 17:31:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83y51992nd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <63r47232fz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392651133 16870 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 15:32:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:32:13 +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 16:32:20 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 1WFQB8-0007WI-GL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:32:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQB8-0006MB-1u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAz-0006LD-3U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAt-0004Fj-5c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAt-0004FT-1i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:32:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAr-0000Rn-KV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:32:02 -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 15:32:01 +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=B16772.13926511031686 (code B ref 16772); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16772) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2014 15:31:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56643 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAX-0000R3-P3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:60150) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQAR-0000Qe-GY for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1500E00CE4NC00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:32:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N1500E7GCHR2S10@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:32:15 +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:85737 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:06:52 +0100 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org > > > 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: > > > > Installing utilities for users to run. > > umask 022; /bin/mkdir -p "../myinstalldir/bin" > > for file in runemacs.exe addpm.exe ; do \ > > /bin/install -c ${file} "../myinstalldir/bin"/`echo ${file} | sed > > -e 's/.exe$//' -e 's,x,x,'`.exe ; \ > > done > > /bin/install -c -m 644 /C/msys/home/dani/emacs/repo/nt/README.W32 > > "../myinstalldir/share/emacs/24.3.50" > > /bin/install: cannot create regular file > > `../myinstalldir/share/emacs/24.3.50': No such file or directory > > Makefile:168: recipe for target `install' failed > > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/dani/emacs/build/nt' > > Makefile:509: recipe for target `install-nt' failed > > make: *** [install-nt] Error 2 > > > > The problem, I think, is that $(DESTDIR) contains literally the prefix > > I gave ("../myinstalldir"), > > After some more tests, what seems to happen is that the "DESTDIR" make > variable is empty during the evaluation of the "install" target in > "nt/Makefile" ("${datadir}" is what produces "../myinstalldir/share"). 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.