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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? |
Date: | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:23:50 -0700 |
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Kai Großjohann wrote:
When compiling Emacs from the CVS sources, then doing "make install", I get errors (warnings?) like this: * Ada mode: (ada-mode). Emacs mode for editing Ada code. install-info(/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/ada-mode): replacing existing dir entry for `ada-mode' cp: cannot create regular file `/var/backups/infodir.bak': Permission denied install-info(/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/ada-mode): couldn't backup /home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: No such file or directory Suggestions?
Find out why install-info is referencing /var/backups. It's probably being passed explicity from the Makefile, so perhaps its a configure parameter. It does seem odd that it has apparently ignored your --prefix=/home/kai/sw/emacs-21.0 parameter, though. -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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