Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!ghoti+ From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: PS -- Re: Failing to create DESTDIR subdirectories Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 12:05:49 GMT References: <9008220842.AA13396@kurango.cs.flinders.oz.au> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 *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 ;-)