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Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:49:59 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:40 +0100
> Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Why would then work the other commands in the install target?

Presumably because those directories somehow did exist beforehand.

Anyway, DESTDIR must be an absolute file name, see my other mail.

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