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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jun 20, 2007, 03:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706192007000.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <4b3406f0706191945j1a489743qfacdcafd7f7d73d4@mail.gmail.com>

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

Do you possibly have a "ginstall" somewhere in addition to the GNU make?

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".

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