Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:58:52 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:39:07 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > bindir=../myinstalldir/bin
> > datarootdir=../myinstalldir/share
> > libexecdir=../myinstalldir/libexec
> 
> The value of $(datadir) you reported, "../myinstalldir/share" is
> consistent with these values.
> 
> Perhaps it's simply that the directory hasn't been created yet. Try
> 
> === modified file 'nt/Makefile.in'
> --- nt/Makefile.in 2014-02-13 03:19:57 +0000
> +++ nt/Makefile.in 2014-02-17 15:38:27 +0000
> @@ -172,4 +172,5 @@
>    $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $(INSTALL_STRIP) $${file}
> "$(DESTDIR)${bindir}"/`echo $${file} | sed -e 's/${EXEEXT}$$//' -e
> '$(TRANSFORM)'`${EXEEXT} ; \
>   done
> + ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)${datadir}/emacs/$(version)"
>   $(INSTALL_DATA) README.W32 "$(DESTDIR)${datadir}/emacs/$(version)"

Previously, Dani said this directory already existed when the error
was reported.