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RE: [LUG] ./install
On 26-Apr-00 at 16:33:22 Rob Heath wrote:
> what is the reason for not being able to install a program using
> ./install as root
> the install program is in its own tmp directory an is executed from
> there
>
> the error that comes up is "does not exist,not file or directory"
>
Seems a bit vague (on soapbox - actually no it is very vague and pretty
poor programming. Surely error checking can be better than this - i.e. *what*
doesn't exist? Something that simple would help a lot! - off soapbox).
Is install being run on its own or via a make file? If the latter then
perhaps 'make -n' will show what is going on. As the message implies, the
program is not finding something - as to what will depend on what it is
doing. Perhaps the -d option should have been used with install?
John.
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