error during 'make install'

[Carl R. Powers]

Would it be reasonable to modify lin so that anytime an update of an 
existing
package failed AFTER the old package was removed or moved out of the way,
it would automatically resurrect the old version?   I haven't seen this 
"no rule to
make install" failure recently, but 6-8 months ago it was eating my 
lunch on
many updates!  Now I mainly see errors during post-install which keep lunar
from knowing the package got installed or updated.

Just a thought.

Carl Powers
<powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil><powers at copper.net>

Benoit Valiron wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:52:54PM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
>  
>
>>Benoit Valiron wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>I try to work out on the following error: when lining -c something already
>>>installed, like "xpdf", or more annoying "glibc" I usually end up with
>>>the following message:
>>>
>>> make: ** no rule to make install **
>>>
>>>Analysing what was stored by lunar when installing "xpdf", I found that
>>>he was storing part of the source directory, and in particular the
>>>Makefile... I guess the problem is the same for the other packages.
>>>
>>>Then, before installing, lin is using lrm and remove the list of files
>>>that are supposed to be the package. Then there is no way to install
>>>anything since the Makefile disapeared.
>>>      
>>>
>>there has been only one other reference to this rumored bug, which was 
>>three weeks ago.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>What I suggest is to make lrm only remove the files listed in the
>>>install-log AND that are not the one in the src directory.
>>>      
>>>
>>it's supposed to do that already
>>    
>>
>
>I looked at the file "/sbin/lrm" and I didn't found any mention of test
>refering to "$BUID_DIRECTORY". So I added one, and tried the packages
>that were failing to compile when already installed, like xpdf or glibc,
>and it's now working !
>
>Here is a patch, I don't know if someone is willing to check it and put
>it in the moonbase...
>
>By the way, am I the only one who get "xpdf" failing when you
>recompile it by "lin -c" ?
>
>
>-- Benoit
>
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