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Re: /usr/bin/install doesn't install files from Makefile


On 22/09/2014 23:14, Michael Osipov wrote:
Am 2014-09-17 um 12:16 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
On 17/09/2014 10:56, Michael Osipov wrote:
Am 2014-09-16 um 19:59 schrieb Csaba Raduly:
Hi Michael,


Unfortunately, it is not:
...
(cd /home/mosipov/asciidoc/bin; ln -sf asciidoc.py asciidoc)
(cd /home/mosipov/asciidoc/bin; ln -sf a2x.py a2x)


have you thought to look on asciidoc source ?
The install system is very poor, so it is not an issue of make..

However with

$ autoreconf -ifv
$ ./configure --prefix=/asciidoc
$ make install DESTDIR="/tmp/foo"

I was able to install in "/tmp/foo/asciidoc"

Hi Marco,

just tried to reproduce this on some other project which should work. I
have tried curl from GitHub master.

I have the very same result. I cannot install in $HOME/curl but
make install DESTDIR="/tmp" successfully ends up in /tmp/home/mosipov/curl.

This is very strange.

Michael


why strange ?

the final installation dir is ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}

for if you put
  DESTDIR="/tmp"
  --prefix=$HOME/curl

the result will be in  /tmp$HOME/curl alias /tmp/home/mosipov/curl

On asciidoc there is a mistake and the final dir is
  ${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}

so if you define only
  --prefix=$HOME/curl
  and not DESTDIR

the final dir should be /$HOME/curl alias //home/mosipov/asciidoc
and cygwin rejects the leading "//" as they have a special meaning.
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#unc-paths

In that case the trick is
  DESTDIR="/"
 --prefix=$HOME/asciidoc

the result will be in  ///$HOME/asciidoc
 alias ///home/mosipov/asciidoc
 alias /home/mosipov/asciidoc

Regards
Marco








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