Re: Errors install git-1.5.2.2 on 64-bit AIX

["Dongsheng Song" <dongsheng.song@gmail.com>]

No "ginstall" or "gnuinstall". I will try compile coreutils-6.9 latter.

2007/6/20, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
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> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Dongsheng Song wrote:
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> > But install failed:
> > [ ... ]
> > Usage: install [-c dira] [-f dirb] [-i] [-m] [-M mode] [-O owner]
> >               [-G group] [-S] [-n dirc] [-o] [-s] file [dirx ...]
> > gnumake: *** [install] Error 2
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> Do you possibly have a "ginstall" somewhere in addition to the GNU make?
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> If so, just make the "INSTALL" macro in the Makefile point to that instead
> of the (apparently totally broken) regular "install" program on AIX.
>
> Maybe it's called "gnuinstall".
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> That said, the installation is really just a matter of copying, so you
> *could* just replace the uses of "install" with either "-mkdir" or "cp"
> depending on whether it's used to make sure a directory exists, or to
> actually copy the programs.
>
>                 Linus
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