/usr/bin/install doesn't install files from Makefile

[Marco Atzeri]

On 22/09/2014 23:14, Michael Osipov wrote:
> Am 2014-09-17 um 12:16 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>> On 17/09/2014 10:56, Michael Osipov wrote:
>>> Am 2014-09-16 um 19:59 schrieb Csaba Raduly:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>
>>
>>> Unfortunately, it is not:
>>> ...
>>> (cd /home/mosipov/asciidoc/bin; ln -sf asciidoc.py asciidoc)
>>> (cd /home/mosipov/asciidoc/bin; ln -sf a2x.py a2x)
>>>
>>
>> have you thought to look on asciidoc source ?
>> The install system is very poor, so it is not an issue of make..
>>
>> However with
>>
>> $ autoreconf -ifv
>> $ ./configure --prefix=/asciidoc
>> $ make install DESTDIR="/tmp/foo"
>>
>> I was able to install in "/tmp/foo/asciidoc"
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> just tried to reproduce this on some other project which should work. I
> have tried curl from GitHub master.
>
> I have the very same result. I cannot install in $HOME/curl but
> make install DESTDIR="/tmp" successfully ends up in /tmp/home/mosipov/curl.
>
> This is very strange.
>
> Michael
>

why strange ?

the final installation dir is ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}

for if you put
   DESTDIR="/tmp"
   --prefix=$HOME/curl

the result will be in  /tmp$HOME/curl alias /tmp/home/mosipov/curl

On asciidoc there is a mistake and the final dir is
   ${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}

so if you define only
   --prefix=$HOME/curl
   and not DESTDIR

the final dir should be /$HOME/curl alias //home/mosipov/asciidoc
and cygwin rejects the leading "//" as they have a special meaning.
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#unc-paths

In that case the trick is
   DESTDIR="/"
  --prefix=$HOME/asciidoc

the result will be in  ///$HOME/asciidoc
  alias ///home/mosipov/asciidoc
  alias /home/mosipov/asciidoc

Regards
Marco








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