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Re: Installation Report 3.0-beta

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From: John Interrante
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 03:32
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In article <3429@kluge.fiu.edu> ege@scs.fiu.edu (Raimund K. Ege) writes:

   During installation we encountered a minor problem for the script files:

   + install -c -m 0755 cpu ../../.././installed/bin/SUN4
   cp: 0755: No such file or directory
   chmod: ../../.././installed/bin/SUN4/0755: No such file or directory

I never saw this problem before, but I can guess what happened.  It
was a combination of three mistakes, two ours and one yours:

 1) We had an executable script called `install' in src/bin/scripts.
 2) You had `.' ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH.
 3) The script had a bug in it.

We should never have had an executable script called install in
src/bin/scripts, but we weren't careful enough when we made the
3.0-beta snapshot.  When you tried to install the script files, make
invoked src/bin/scripts/install instead of /usr/bin/install because
you had `.' ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH.  The script was very old
(it came from X11R3), so it had a bug which caused the error messages
you saw.

You should delete src/bin/scripts/install and you should put `.' last
in your PATH to make sure you don't accidentally invoke an executable
file in the current directory again because it has the same name as a
command.
--
John Interrante / interran@lurch.stanford.edu
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From: interran@lurch.Stanford.EDU (John Interrante)
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Subject: Re: Installation Report 3.0-beta
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