[aur-general] mirdir pkg error

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM, 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
>

for the man pages try:
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man