GNU bug report logs - #16772
Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:48:52 +0200

> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:42:52 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> /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"), 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.
> 
> If I specify an absolute path as prefix in "make install", the the
> process seems to complete successfully.

Don't specify relative file names in DESTDIR, that's not supported.
From the GNU Coding Standards:

  7.2.4 `DESTDIR': Support for Staged Installs
  --------------------------------------------

  `DESTDIR' is a variable prepended to each installed target file, like
  this:

       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) foo $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/foo
       $(INSTALL_DATA) libfoo.a $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libfoo.a

     The `DESTDIR' variable is specified by the user on the `make'
  command line as an absolute file name.  For example:
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       make DESTDIR=/tmp/stage install
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