Re: [gtk-osx-users] Failure about the building for the gtk

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, John Ralls wrote:

> > On Oct 28, 2015, at 7:19 AM, Tom H <tomhson yahoo com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,everybody,
> > I have down the file"gtk-osx-build-setup.sh" into my home directory.And I wanna build the gtk with the 
> > command:$ sh gtk-osx-build-setup.sh But I encounter error. Why?And how could I fix the problem?Thank you!
> > $ sh gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
> > Checking out jhbuild (07b5a7d) from git...
> > Cloning into 'jhbuild'...
> > remote: Counting objects: 42422, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12580/12580), done.
> > remote: Total 42422 (delta 32682), reused 38608 (delta 29676)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (42422/42422), 8.77 MiB | 224.00 KiB/s, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (32682/32682), done.
> > Checking connectivity... done.
> > Switched to a new branch 'stable'
> > Applying: Bug 700557 - autoreconf -i fails in cases of ltmain.sh mismatch
> > Installing jhbuild...
> > gnome-autogen.sh not available
> > yelp-tools not available
> > Configuring jhbuild without autotools
> > Now type `make' to compile jhbuild
> > mkdir: /Users/kevin/.local/bin: Not a directory
> > make: *** [install] Error 1
> > Jhbuild installation failed
>
> Hmm, that’s odd. It’s actually calling mkdir -p, which shouldn’t 
> issue that error. What happens if you try to create that directory 
> by hand?

I guess the script might fail in that way ("Not a directory") if 
there already existed a plain file, not a directory, by the name of
/Users/kevin/.local or /Users/kevin/.local/bin. Unusual but not 
impossible!

Allin Cottrell