X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Siegfried Heintze" To: Subject: FW: Problems compiling grep and friends Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:14:41 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-IMAIL-SPAM-VALHELO: (acb4015300005ad7) X-IMAIL-SPAM-VALREVDNS: (acb4015300005ad7) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l8RDEvgP031602 I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? Thanks, Siegfried make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/sheintze/Desktop/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygw in/release/grep/grep-2.5.1a-4/intl' Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/sheintze/Desktop/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygw in/release/grep/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 make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/sheintze/Desktop/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygw in/release/grep/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 -- 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/