Re: gEDA: PCB install target: problems on OS X

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish-at-NOSPAMdebian_dot_org>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:28:06PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> (Using 20050127 snapshot)
> 
> The default OS X /usr/bin/install program doesn't seem to like copying
> directories wholesale, as seen in this output from pcb's 'make
> install':
> 
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './pcb.html'
> '/sw/src/root-pcb-1.99.20050127-1/sw/share/pcb/pcb.html'
> install: ./pcb.html: Inappropriate file type or format
> 
> where pcb.html is a directory. (I think the last snapshot just had a
> single HTML file with the same name. Don't get me wrong-- I think
> multiple files are better.)
> 
> Is this error specific to BSD-derived OSes, or are other people seeing
> this as well?

Now that you mention it, I don't think pcb.html got installed
automatically on linux either. It didn't cause a make failure though.

Hamish
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