Re: Scrollkeeper won't make-install

[Anthony <orders nodivisions com>]

Yep, I'm doing the "make install" as root, as is standard practice. 
From what I've read, there is a bug in scrollkeeper's installation 
scripts that's causing ${prefix} to be included as text, instead of its 
contents (which would be /usr/local by default).

For now, I've worked around this by editing the configure script and 
replacing all occurences of ${prefix} with /usr/local.

-Anthony

Chris Moller wrote:
> Are you installing as root?  Usually ${prefix} is empty and the 
> permissions for /var/log are set to be writable only by root.
>
> Try
>
> sudo make install
>
> or su to root before doing make install.
>
> Chris Moller
> Red Hat
>
> Anthony wrote:
>
> > How come I'm the only one asking questions about installing Gnome 2.4 
> > around here?  Is everyone else just a lot better at this than I am?
> >
> > Anyway, here's the latest problem: make install for scrollkeeper does 
> > a bunch of stuff, and then does this:
> >
> >  >>>
> > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/var/log
> > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> > ; \
> >         echo "`date +\"%b %d %X\"` Installing ScrollKeeper 
> > `scrollkeeper-config --version`..." >> 
> > /usr/local/var/log/scrollkeeper.log
> > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> > ; \
> >         /usr/local/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -q -p 
> > /usr/local/var/lib/scrollkeeper
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > ...
> > <<<
> >
> > It just does that forever.  Apparently something isn't turning 
> > ${prefix} into whatever it's supposed to be.  I searched a little and 
> > found a thread referencing this problem, and someone said they were 
> > fixing this and would put the updated tarballs online.  But the 
> > scrollkeeper website has 0.3.12 as the latest version, and that's the 
> > same version I'm using, which I downloaded from the Gnome site.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to proceed?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Anthony
> > http://nodivisions.com/
> >
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