Re[2]: [lmi] installing libxml2 with MSYS's bash

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:02:37 -0500 "Boutin, Wendy" <address@hidden> wrote:

BW> > BW> > The problem I had with that was:
BW> > BW> > 
BW> > BW> >   address@hidden /tmp/libxml2-2.6.19
BW> > BW> >   $ make install
BW> > BW> >      [...]
BW> > BW> >   test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
BW> > BW> >     /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /bin/install -c 'xmllint.exe' 
'/usr/local/bin
BW> > BW> >   /xmllint.exe'
BW> > BW> >   /bin/install -c .libs/xmllint.exe /usr/local/bin/xmllint.exe
BW> > BW> >   /bin/install: cannot stat `.libs/xmllint.exe': No such file or 
directory
BW> > BW> >   make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
BW> > 
BW> >  This error message looks very strange if the file is there. 
BW> > What does "ls -l /.libs/xmllint.exe" show?
BW> 
BW> Well, it's not exactly there, but...
BW> 
BW> address@hidden /c/tmp/libxml2-2.6.19
BW> $ ls -l /.libs/xmllint.exe
BW> ls: /.libs/xmllint.exe: No such file or directory

 Sorry, the leading slash was just an unfortunate typo.

BW> it is here
BW> 
BW> address@hidden /c/tmp/libxml2-2.6.19
BW> $ ls -l ./.libs/xmllint.exe
BW> -rwxr-xr-x    1 mmXXXXX  Administ  1089930 Dec  1 15:08 ./.libs/xmllint.exe

 Yet stating it fails for some reason... Really strange. Have you tried
executing the same command that make runs, i.e.

/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /bin/install -c 'xmllint.exe' '/usr/local/bin

manually?

BW> This may be an elementary question, but is there something I should
BW> have configured so MSYS's bash doesn't need the '.' at the beginning 
BW> of the path? It really seems like this should just work.

 Yes, it definitely should and I don't think there is anything to be
configured.

 Regards,
VZ