Re: $(top_srcdir)../../mkinstalldirs not found

[Jeff Bailey]

Ben, thanks for the report.  It would be helpful if you can give me a bit
more information:

System type (Linux, Hurd, BSD, etc...), Autoconf version, Automake version.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey


On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:27:20PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> I grabbed inetutils-20010404.tgz from... hrm... can't remember where.
> Anyhow, I'm assuming that it's a v. recent cvs snapshot (like today's).
> When I run
> 
> $ ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> it seems that during the install step, it fails, unable to find
> mkinstalldirs where it expects it at
> ~username/inetutils/../../mkinstalldirs.  And indeed, it is not found 2
> directories above the top level source dir, but rather directly in the
> top level source dir (naturally?).
> 
> I corrected this problem by simply sedding out the '../../' from in
> front of 'mkinstalldirs' in all of my Makefile.in's before running the
> './configure' command. The 'make install' step works fine now.  I think
> this is a bug...? Just thought you might like to know about it.
> 
> I'm not on the list, so please CC me any replies.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
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