cannot install on Solaris

Hi,

I tried to install cthumb 4.1 form the tar ball. I extracted the perl 
tarball into an appropriate location (which would have been easier if 
there were no "perl-modules" prefix to all paths) and tried to do make 
install. I get:

as49@myrtle:~/source/cthumb-4.1:588$ gmake install
install -d /home/cur/as49/local/bin /home/cur/as49/local/share 
/home/cur/as49/local/share/images/cthumb /home/cur/as49/local/man/man1
usage: install [-cs] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file ...  destination
       install  -d   [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] dir
gmake: *** [install] Error 1

I found another version of install:

as49@myrtle:~/source/cthumb-4.1:593$ PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH gmake install
install -d /home/cur/as49/local/bin /home/cur/as49/local/share 
/home/cur/as49/local/share/images/cthumb /home/cur/as49/local/man/man1
install -m555 cthumb /home/cur/as49/local/bin
find: cannot follow symbolic link /bin/oldjava: No such file or directory
find: cannot follow symbolic link /bin/javald: No such file or directory
find: cannot follow symbolic link /usr/bin/oldjava: No such file or 
directory
find: cannot follow symbolic link /usr/bin/javald: No such file or 
directory
...

and so on. So I saw that you included an install program in you 
distribution called install-sh. I had to rename it since you don't use a 
variable in your Makefile:

as49@myrtle:~/source/cthumb-4.1:586$ mv install-sh install    
as49@myrtle:~/source/cthumb-4.1:587$ PATH=.:$PATH make install
install -d /home/cur/as49/local/bin /home/cur/as49/local/share 
/home/cur/as49/local/share/images/cthumb /home/cur/as49/local/man/man1
install -m555 cthumb /home/cur/as49/local/bin
install:  -m555 does not exist
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'

So even that does not work. Actually I think the arguments are the wrong 
way round: First the directory, then all the files you want to install.

Can you explain this to me?

Thanks,
Axel.



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