[GRASS-user] grass 6.3.0 solaris 10 install errors

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Tue Aug 12 17:46:05 EDT 2008


Brian Clark wrote:

> >>> The files are deleted during make, but I'm not sure exactly when
> >>> it happens..
> >>>       
> >> while make runs, can you monitor the directory structure in another
> >> terminal window and track down when it happens that way?
> >>
> >> perhaps: 
> >>   watch ls -l include/Make/
> >>
> >> then quickly ^C make, back up a little, and see where in the build it
> >> got up to? timing may have to be fast....
> >>
> >> or chmod one of the vanishing files to be read-only then see if `make`
> >> stops with an error at some point when it can't remove it?
> >>     
> >
> > To delete a file, you need write permission on the directory. You
> > don't need any permissions on the file itself.
> >
> > But running "chmod a-w include/Make" after "configure" but before
> > "make" may well provide useful information.
> 
> Here's another partial build log (the entire log is >1 Meg) after I 
> finally changed permissions for the error to show up as a 'mv' command.
> mv: cannot rename ../include/Make/Dir.make to /wattemp/GRASS/grass-6.3.0/dist.sparc-sun-solaris2.10/include/Make//#inst.747#: Permission denied

Oops; you need to use:

	make INSTALL="`pwd`/install-sh -c"

Without -c, the install-sh script moves the files instead of copying
them.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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