Re: gEDA: PCB install target: problems on OS X

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:34:13 -0500, Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:28:06PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> > (Using 20050127 snapshot)
> >
> > The default OS X /usr/bin/install program doesn't seem to like copying
> > directories wholesale, as seen in this output from pcb's 'make
> > install':
> >
> >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './pcb.html'
> > '/sw/src/root-pcb-1.99.20050127-1/sw/share/pcb/pcb.html'
> > install: ./pcb.html: Inappropriate file type or format
> >
> > where pcb.html is a directory. (I think the last snapshot just had a
> > single HTML file with the same name. Don't get me wrong-- I think
> > multiple files are better.)
> 
> this happened more or less by mistake.  I didn't notice it had changed
> until after the snapshot.
> 
> out of curiosity, what happens if you use GNU make instead of whatever
> MacOS X ships with?

/usr/bin/make is actually GNU Make v. 3.79. It's the install program
that seems to have BSD heritage.

Not sure if I'll have time to install and test a GNU version of
'install' today, though.

-- 
- Charles Lepple