Re: Fatal error when I am installing openafs

A tarball is a .tar file.  Under source code on the release page

  http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.59.html

there are two *src.tar.* and *doc.tar.*.  You need the matching
*.doc.tar file




hedgepiggy wrote:
> According to instructions of NTReadme file, I downloaded my openafs-1.5.51
> from http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.5.51/openafs-1.5.51-src.tar.
> 
> What is tarball? Do I need to download something else except
> openafs-1.5.51-src.tar?
> 
> 
> 
> Jeffrey Altman-2 wrote:
>> Where did you get your sources from?
>>
>> If you are using the tarballs, did you download and install the
>> documentation tarball as well?
>>
>> hedgepiggy wrote:
>>> I executed "nmake /f NTMakefile man-pages" before "nmake /f NTMakefile
>>> NSIS"
>>> but it occured the same error.
>>>
>>> In fact I found "nmake /f NTMakefile NSIS" had already contained the step
>>> of
>>> " nmake /f NTMakefile man-panges" as the first step.
>>>
>>> The fact is that I don't have a \openafs\openafs-1.5.51\DOC or
>>> \openafs\openafs-1.5.51\DOC\man-pages directory in my
>>> \openafs\openafs-1.5.51 after I built successfully openafs for windows.
>>>
>>> Will this step "nmake /f NTMakefile man-pages" build a
>>> \openafs\openafs-1.5.51\DOC\man-pages directory or just work based on
>>> such
>>> an existing man-pages directory?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Altman-2 wrote:
>>>> Bo:
>>>>
>>>> You need to execute
>>>>
>>>>   nmake /f NTMakefile man-pages
>>>>
>>>> before
>>>>
>>>>   nmake /f NTMakefile NSIS
>>>>
>>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Boliang Chen wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>    Thanks to Jeffery I have already solved dll library error. But now i
>>>>> have encountered a new problem after typing" nmake /f  ntmakefile
>>>>> nsis".
>>>>>    My debug information said " c:\openafs\openafs-1.5.51>echo echo
>>>>> Directory - C:\openafs\openafs-1.5.51\doc\man-pages
>>>>>    1>> C:\openafs\openafs-1.5.51\golast.bat
>>>>>    cd c:\openafs\openafs-1.5.51\doc\man-pages
>>>>>    NMAKE: fatal error U1077: "cd": return code "0x1"
>>>>>   Stop. "
>>>>>    There is no c:\openafs\openafs-1.5.51\doc directory, where did this
>>>>> man-pages come from?
>>>>>     Any one have some ideas about this error?
>>>>>    I have build openafs-1.5.51 free for winxp sp2 successfully, and
>>>>> also
>>>>> installed NSIS in c:\program files\NSIS.
>>>>>    Need your help!
>>>>>  
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Boliang Chen
>>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>
>>  
>>
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