#1323 closed Bug (invalid)
make install fails on Ubuntu Intrepid Beta
| Reported by: | smmalis | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | None Set |
| Component: | Transmission | Version: | 1.34 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
make install fails with the following error message:
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/transmission': No such file or directory
Trying to install the latest version from svn.
Attachments (1)
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by charles
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by charles
it appears to be failing to install here because /usr/local/share/transmission doesn't exist. Do you have write permissions in /usr/local/share?
can you attach a file with the entire `make install' log?
what version of automake/autoconf ships with intrepid?
what are the permissions of /usr/local and /usr/local/share? do you have write permissions to both of them?
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
automake version: 1.10.1-3 autoconf version: 2.61-7 "make install" is run under "sudo", so permissions shouldn't be a problem. Log of make install is attached.
Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by charles
what do you get when running this in a bash shell as root:
| /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/transmission/web" |
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
I get:
test: extra argument `/bin/mkdir'
comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by charles
gah, trac ate the markup, I think.
% test -z "/usr/local/share/transmission/web" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/transmission/web"
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/transmission': Permission denied
Interesting. So it is permissions. You'd think sudo would overcome that. Maybe its an ubuntu bug?
comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
- Resolution invalid deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Ok, I think this is a problem in the makefile. If I just do "sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/transmission/web" it works fine. I think the problem is that "test -z". Is it necessary?
The other thing I noticed is that when make tries to install the icons, mkdir returns a problem. I think it just needs to be mkdir -p.
comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by charles
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from reopened to closed
smmalis: Transmission has no control over those parts of the Makefile. That's all generated by automake/autoconf and probably you should report it upstream to automake to get an opinion from someone who knows more about this than us.
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by smmalis
For anyone interested in following the automake bug report, go to the following link, enter 530 and hit view. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake
A little more context here would be welcomed...