[ESS] Errors in Makefile
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Wed Dec 31 18:02:36 CET 2008
Neil Shephard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a GNU/Linux distribution called Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/)
> that installs _everything_ from source.
>
> With the recent new release of ess-5.3.10 I requested a version bump
> for the ess version that is in this distributions package management
> system and was informed by the maintainer that there is a minor error
> in the doc/Makefile that means that the ${DOCDIR}/html and
> ${DOCDIR}/refcard directories are not created, as the following lines
> are thrown up....
>
> cp -p html/ess.html html/readme.html
> /var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/ess-5.3.10/image//usr/share/doc/ess-5.3.10/html
> cp: target
> `/var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/ess-5.3.10/image//usr/share/doc/ess-5.3.10/html' is
> not a directory
> make[1]: *** [install-other-docs] Error 1
>
>
> Its a minor problem as it doesn't prevent installation of ESS at all,
> and a workaround has been added to the package management system to
> overcome this (packages are installed via scripts called ebuilds and
> the build now creates that directory), but I felt it pertinent to
> report back on this.
>
> Thanks for all the work the writers and maintainers put into ESS its
> very much appreciated.
>
> Neil
>
Thanks Neil. I discovered this myself and I was rather disappointed
at that. The fix is checked into SVN if anyone else needs it.
Happy New Year!
Rodney
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