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From: Henti Smith <bain@tcsn.co.za>
To: iblech@web.de
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wierd problem with ebuild
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:45:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220084554.0a542d7f.bain@tcsn.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021219142832.GA25245@Hitachi>

> I have the following presumption:
> 
> $DESTDIR and $prefix are blank, so it turns to $$. And $$ is the actual
> process number, try echo $$ in different shells, and you will see different
> PIDs.
> 
> Try setting (before 'installdata:') the two variables to an non-empty value,

this was the problem ... to get an install running .. 
I had to do "make installdata" not "make install" 

problem solved thanks :)) 

Henti 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16  6:45 [gentoo-dev] wierd problem with ebuild Henti Smith
2002-12-16  6:49 ` Henti Smith
     [not found]   ` <20021219142832.GA25245@Hitachi>
2002-12-20  6:45     ` Henti Smith [this message]
2002-12-16 13:53 ` Aron Griffis
2002-12-17 10:16   ` Henti Smith
2002-12-18 18:33     ` Aron Griffis
2002-12-19  7:43       ` Henti Smith
2002-12-19  8:05         ` Henti Smith
2002-12-19 12:06         ` Aron Griffis

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