[comp.soft-sys.andrew] PS -- Re: Failing to create DESTDIR subdirectories

ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (08/22/90)

*Sigh* -- I should have looked a little harder

I was using make -n, which on the system I was using doesn't recurse -
and a make -n dependInstall did indeed not show the call to the macro
for making the destination directories.

What it did show (and I forgot to check) was a recursive call to "make
install" -- doing a make -n on that shows the creation of the
destination directories.

So,  the documentation looks like it should be correct - and the
remaining problem is:

Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 22-Aug-90 Failing to create DESTDIR
s.. Operator@cs.flinders.oz. (1235)

> make dependInstall

> barf
> .....: no such file or directory


Is there more to the error message than ".....: no such file or directory" ?

Perhaps the top-level destination directory does not exist ? (i.e.
DESTDIR = /foo/bar/baz, and /foo/bar does not exist)

--fish
(I should have known better than to question something I had set up myself ;-)