vatbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Description of problem:
> Mandriva 2009.0.
> I use checkinstall to make an .rpm of x11vnc-0.9.4
> (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ ):
> ./configure
> make
> checkinstall
> Checkinstall fails because  the command "mkdir -p" in a Makefile fails with 
> installwatch of checkinstall.
>
> Output of checkininstall:
> test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
>   /usr/bin/install -c 'x11vnc' '/usr/local/bin/x11vnc'
> test -z "/usr/local/man/man1" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/man/man1"
> mkdir: cannot create directory "/usr/local/man": No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [install-man1] Error 1

Thanks for the report, but this is not a problem with install, but rather
with whatever DLL you're using -- it sounds like it's from installwatch.
If you can produce such a failure in mkdir without setting LD_PRELOAD,
then *that* would be a bug in coreutils' install.


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