[aur-general] mirdir pkg error

[Andrea Scarpino]

use:
make prefix="$pkgdir/usr" man1dir="$pkgdir/usr/share/man" install

you can remove empty arrays, and make and fakeroot are in base-devel
group so take they out from makedepends.

On 11/06/2009, nathan owe. <ndowens04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>> nathan owe. wrote:
>>> I am trying to make a pkg :
>>>
>>>
>>> # Contributor: Nathan Owe. ndowens04 at gmail dot com
>>> pkgname=mirdir
>>> pkgver=2.1
>>> pkgrel=1
>>> pkgdesc="allows to synchronize two directory trees in a fast way."
>>> arch=(i686)
>>> url="http://mirdir.sf.net"
>>> license=('GPL')
>>> depends=()
>>> makedepends=('make' 'fakeroot')
>>> source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mirdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-Unix.tar.gz)
>>>
>>>
>>> md5sums=('56afe2aae7983176fd804c264740d6a2')
>>>
>>> build() {
>>>  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-UNIX"
>>>
>>>  ./configure --prefix=/usr
>>>  make || return 1
>>>  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
>>> }
>>>
>>> when i try to do makepkg -s it gives
>>> ./mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
>>> ./mkinstalldirs /usr/man/man1
>>> /bin/install -c bin/mirdir /usr/bin
>>> /bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/mirdir':
>>> Permission denied
>>> make: *** [install] Error 1
>>
>> It looks like that package does not support the DESTDIR arguement.
>> You will need to look at the makefile to see what it does do...
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>>
> well i got it to get past the error, now i just need to get it to
> install the man pages to /usr/share/man but i do
> mandir=${pkgdir}/usr/share/man after the make command and it still dont
> want to install in the correct dir
>


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Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer