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Re: Fw: "make install" doesn't work with mac os X 10.5


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Fw: "make install" doesn't work with mac os X 10.5
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:20:12 +0300

> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Troy Mulder <address@hidden>
> 
> test -z "/usr/local/info" || /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs 
> "/usr/local/info"mkdir -p -- /usr/local/info
> mkdir: /usr/local/info: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install-info-am] Error 1

This error message means you don't have permissions to create a new
directory in /usr/local.  In general, "make install" should be run
from a super-user (`root') account, to avoid such problems.

In any case, this has nothing to do with Make per se.




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