>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>> Sort of. It's a common mistake with installation of new software. In
>> this case the command "cp cdda_interface.h /usr/local/include" has
>> been run with no directory called "/usr/local/include existing.
> A common mistake from UNIX neophites who don't use "install" or
>"ginstall" or at least have the correct command, with the directory name
>ending in a slash. A copy to /usr/local/include/ will not create the
>directory, but it will fail, hopefully noisily enough to alert the user.
The Schily makefile system has a rule to first create the target dir if
missing and then using the Schily install-sh to copy the file to newdir/file.
Maybe one problem is that people who are writing their own makefiles
- from scratch and again for every new project - will not eliminate such mistakes
which may easily be fixed if you use a structured system like the schily makefile
system. If you encounter a problem in a structured system, you just fix the
only place where the bug is located and all users of the code will use
the new better code.
J�rg
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