X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4703C960.EF841594@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:54:56 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems compiling grep and friends References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Siegfried Heintze wrote: > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' > if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ > .././mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > else \ > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > fi > mkdir //usr > mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr': No such host or network path > mkdir //usr/local > mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local': No such host or network path > mkdir //usr/local/share > mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local/share': No such host or network > path This is arguably a bug in the Makefile: if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \ $(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(DESTDIR)/$(datadir); \ else \ $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)/$(datadir); \ fi Here the author seemed to be relying on the fact that on many *nix systems, //foo/bar is equivalent to /foo/bar in the case where DESTDIR is not set. However this is not true on Cygwin as the double-slash signals a UNC path, and the POSIX standards allow for this. So as a workaround, try "make install DESTDIR=/" which would result in "///foo/bar" which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems that reserve // for network paths. Or, you could actually use DESTDIR in the way it's designed (which is probably why this was never noticed when e.g. creating the grep packages.) Also, knock this off: > cd c:/cygwin/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/ Stop using Win32 paths. They work only by coincidence, not by design. "cd /usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4" is what you should use. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/