Re: Errors with checkinstall

[Rik]

On 02/27/2012 01:18 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:53:44 +0100
> From: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, Octave Maintainers
>       <address@hidden>
> Subject: 3.6.1 can't use checkinstall
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> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the tar pointed from octave.org. It compiles and checks
> gives zero erros. However when I run
> sudo checkinstall
> I get the error
>
> test -z "/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1/octave" || /bin/mkdir -p
> "/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1/octave"
> /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1':
> No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [install-octincludeHEADERS] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1/libcruft'
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1/libcruft'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> What does the error mean?
2/27/12

Juan,

It works for me on Kubuntu 10.04.  I can do 'sudo make install' or 'sudo
checkinstall make install' and both succeed.  The error message is pretty
clear that it can't create the directory in question.  Since you used sudo
I don't think it is a permissions issue.  It might be a problem with
'mkdir'.  Some mkdir do not support the '-p' option.  You could test that
with 'mkdir -p ~/foo1/foo2/foo3' which should create a 3-deep directory
structure.

For reference from my machine:

dpkg -S /bin/mkdir
coreutils: /bin/mkdir
dpkg -l coreutils
ii  coreutils                   7.4-2ubuntu3                The GNU core
utilities

--Rik