Errors installing trunk version on Ubuntu 9.10

Sebastian Wiesinger irrtoolset at ml.karotte.org
Tue Feb 2 12:57:27 UTC 2010


* Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> [2010-02-01 15:53]:
> > I'm having problems installing the svn trunk under Ubuntu 9.10. It
> > compiles but when I do a make install I get the following:
> > 
> > test -z "/home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/share/man/man1" || /bin/mkdir -p "/home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/share/man/man1"
> >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 irrtoolset-errors.1 irrtoolset-errors.1 '/home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/share/man/man1'
> >  /usr/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created `/home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/share/man/man1/irrtoolset-errors.1' with `irrtoolset-errors.1'
> >  make[3]: *** [install-man1] Error 1
> > 
> > Is this a problem because I use a custom prefix?
> 
> Looks like irrtoolset-errors.1 already exists in
> /home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/share/man/man1/
> 
> Does this happen if your /home/swiesinger/bin/irrtoolset/ directory is
> completely removed before you install?

Yes it does, the directory was created by the make install script.

The wording "will not overwrite just-created ..." suggests that
install knows that it's overwriting a file it just created...

Kind Regards,

Sebastian

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