From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: make problems
Date: 23 Jan 2000 12:35:54 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Andy wrote:
> 
> > C:\UTILS\Djgpp\contrib\tvision>make install
> > install -d -m 0755 c:/utils/djgpp/include/rhtvision
> > C:\UTILS\DJGPP\BIN\GINSTALL.EXE: cannot open
> > make.exe: *** [install] Error -1
> 
> This is due to a known bug in the version of DJGPP with which the
> ported Fileutils 3.16 were compiled: simulated symlinks didn't work
> when the target of the symlink (ginstall.exe in this case) had exactly
> 8 characters in its name before the dot.
> 
> As a work-around, use this:
> 
>    make install INSTALL=ginstall
> 
> I'm assuming that the Makefile supplied with YAMD has a variable
> INSTALL which is set to "install"; the above command overrides that.
> If the above doesn't work, simply edit the Makefile and replace
> "install" by "ginstall" manually.

Actually, it doesn't.  So editing might be necessary.

Or you could probably do

cd \utils\djgpp\bin
copy ginstall.exe install.exe

Btw, the next version of YAMD will have the build process completely
redone (I'm going to use automake/autoconf, to make porting easier).

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu