Forgot to include --prefix=/tools

Basel · 09-01-2005, 05:09 AM

Hello,

I forgot to include --prefix=/tools while configuring gawk. Is it going to affect my system, Slackware 10.1?
Will it be fine if I configure gawk again, as part of LFS-6.1 5.13. Gawk-3.1.4, in the same directory?

Code:

lfs:/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4$ ./configure && make && make install && echo done_gawk
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4/intl'
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4'
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- . "/usr/local/bin"
  ./install-sh -c 'gawk' '/usr/local/bin/gawk'
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/_inst.8023_': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs_6.1/sources/gawk-3.1.4'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

kjordan · 09-01-2005, 06:27 AM

Nope, it won't affect your system as make install didn't pass. That's why you're making the toolkit as an unpriviliged user on your host, so you can't accidentally overwrite host files.

./install-sh -c 'gawk' '/usr/local/bin/gawk'
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/_inst.8023_': Permission denied

That right there says it couldn't install gawk to /usr/local/bin. So really even if you were able to install it, it wouldn't overwrite your system gawk since Slackware put it in /usr and not /usr/local. So, just reconfigure and make and install it.

Basel · 09-01-2005, 10:46 AM

Thanks kjordan