Error when doing 'make install'

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Feb-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| With a checkout from about 8 hours ago, I see the following error when
| doing 'make install' (my --prefix is /home/sh/Programmer):
| 
| make -f octMakefile install
| make[1]: Entering directory
| `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream'
| ./mkinstalldirs /home/sh/Programmer//bin /home/sh/Programmer//share /home/sh/Programmer//lib /home/sh/Programmer//include/octave-3.1.52/octave /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/3.1.52/m /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/site/m /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/site/api-v34/m /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/3.1.52/site/m /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/3.1.52/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/site/oct/api-v34/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/3.1.52/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/3.1.52/imagelib /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/3.1.52/exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/site/exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/api-v34/site/exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu /home/sh/Programmer//libexec/octave/3.1.52/site/exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu
| rm -f /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-bug
| /usr/bin/install -c
| octave-bug /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-bug-3.1.52
| (cd /home/sh/Programmer//bin; ln -s
| octave-bug-3.1.52 /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-bug)
| rm -f /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-config
| /usr/bin/install -c \
| 	  octave-config /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-config-3.1.52
| (cd /home/sh/Programmer//bin; ln -s
| octave-config-3.1.52 /home/sh/Programmer//bin/octave-config)
| rm -f /home/sh/Programmer//bin/mkoctfile
| /usr/bin/install -c mkoctfile /home/sh/Programmer//bin/mkoctfile-3.1.52
| (cd /home/sh/Programmer//bin; ln -s
| mkoctfile-3.1.52 /home/sh/Programmer//bin/mkoctfile)
| /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
| config.h /home/sh/Programmer//include/octave-3.1.52/octave/config.h
| /usr/bin/install -c -m
| 644 ./NEWS /home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/3.1.52/etc/NEWS
| /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file
| `/home/sh/Programmer//share/octave/3.1.52/etc/NEWS': No such file or
| directory
| make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory
| `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream'
| make: *** [install] Error 2

I checked in this change:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3cedb606145d

jwe