From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:09:01 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84k7g9jxte.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044803362 1536 80.91.224.249 (9 Feb 2003 15:09:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:09:22 +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 18ht57-0000Oc-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:09:21 +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 18ht6D-0007DL-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:10:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e5fd.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e5fd.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.229.253) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044803364 43326277 217.225.229.253 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oDaFhFhRA5YLhH3rEfWl7uSRaEY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109979 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:6484 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6484 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? -- A turnip curses Elvis