Re: [Fink-users] SGMLSpm-1.03ii.tar.gz failed to compile

[Mich�le Garoche]

Le 12 avr. 2004, � 19:46, Martin Costabel a �crit :

jfm wrote:

On Apr 12, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Mich�le Garoche wrote:

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cp -RL DOC/HTML/SGMLSpm/ DOC/HTML/sgmlspl/ /sw/src/root-sgmls-pm-1.03ii-1/sw/share/doc/sgmls-pm
chmod a+x,a+r /sw/src/root-sgmls-pm-1.03ii-1/sw/share/doc/sgmls-pm/SGMLSpm /sw/src/root-sgmls-pm-1.03ii-1/sw/share/doc/sgmls-pm/sgmlspl
chmod: /sw/src/root-sgmls-pm-1.03ii-1/sw/share/doc/sgmls-pm/SGMLSpm: No such file or directory
chmod: /sw/src/root-sgmls-pm-1.03ii-1/sw/share/doc/sgmls-pm/sgmlspl:

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You're right : there is in the info file a 'cd DOC; make -t html' _ in order to ensure
the above "make[1]: Nothing to be done for `html'." (touching the relevant files
didn't seem to suffice), and which creates an (empty) file DOC/html _ thus
overwriting on HFS+ the dir DOC/HTML.
I'll fix it real soon.

Hmm, this is not what I am seeing. The directories are there, but they don't get copied, because /bin/cp has a trailing slash bug:

"/bin/cp -RL a b" copies the directory a and its contents into the directory b. This is as advertised.

"/bin/cp -RL a/ b" does nothing. This is at least a "surprising feature".

Yes, you have to put an * after the / so that it copies. I tossed on that yesterday when I wanted to copy a directory to another.

Fink's cp does not have this problem:
"/sw/bin/cp -RL a/ b" does the same thing as without trailing slash.

Bad Apple :-(

Indeed, when I install the fileutils package, sgmls-pm builds without problem.

I can obviously install fileutils, but it should work also without it, should not it. Or a dependency on fileutils?

Mich�le
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>

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