Re: make install fails

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/XFree86/4.2/std/xc/programs/xterm'
>> install -c  "`if [ \`grep ^utmp: /etc/group\` ]; then echo ' -m 2755 -g 
>> utmp'; else echo ' -m 4711'; fi`" xterm /usr/X11R6-v4/bin/xterm
>> install: installing multiple files, but last argument,
>> `/usr/X11R6-v4/bin/xterm' is not a directory
>> Try `install --help' for more information.

>> I think that the double quotes are turning the -m flags into a filename
>> beginning with a space.

>> The enclosed patch seems to work.

> I saw the commit message, but the proposed solution still doesn't solve the 
> problem: it is possible to have a utmp group defined but not use it
> for the file-permissions on /var/whatever.  There's no 100% standard pathname 
> for that file, so the configure script does some work to decide if it looks 
> reasonable.

The configure script is irrelevant.  If you come up with a means to make this 
work properly with imake & Xinstall, then by all means do so.

Marc.

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