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

[Michael Osipov]

Am 2014-09-23 um 16:11 schrieb 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 ?

Strange because of:

> 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

Install does not work at all, if I do not supply the DESTDIR variable.
Regard where I want to install. That is the point.

Here is the output: http://pastebin.com/RQbAnz6e


> 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

That is nice. asciidoc is broken here. I will open up an issue on GitHub.

Michael


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