Re: Scrollkeeper won't make-install

[Chris Moller <cmoller redhat com>]

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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