On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:34:13 -0500, Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:28:06PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > > (Using 20050127 snapshot) > > > > The default OS X /usr/bin/install program doesn't seem to like copying > > directories wholesale, as seen in this output from pcb's 'make > > install': > > > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './pcb.html' > > '/sw/src/root-pcb-1.99.20050127-1/sw/share/pcb/pcb.html' > > install: ./pcb.html: Inappropriate file type or format > > > > where pcb.html is a directory. (I think the last snapshot just had a > > single HTML file with the same name. Don't get me wrong-- I think > > multiple files are better.) > > this happened more or less by mistake. I didn't notice it had changed > until after the snapshot. > > out of curiosity, what happens if you use GNU make instead of whatever > MacOS X ships with?
/usr/bin/make is actually GNU Make v. 3.79. It's the install program that seems to have BSD heritage. Not sure if I'll have time to install and test a GNU version of 'install' today, though. -- - Charles Lepple
