Re: make install fails

Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

This has been committed.  Thanks.

Marc.

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