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

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Message #43 received at 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:06:52 +0100

> 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").


-- 
Dani Moncayo

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