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According to zhang yan on 1/22/2009 3:17 AM: > hello Eric, > I download the m4-1.4.12.16-307f from the site you gave, and > ./configure, make, make check these three steps can be executed > successfully, but there still is an error for command "make install". > Can you help me? Did you read the instructions in INSTALL? Your failure means that as a normal user, you don't have permission to write into /usr/local (and that is generally a good thing, since the contents of /usr/local affect all users of the machine, and should thus be a controlled activity). So you have two options - installation into the default location (/usr/local/...) requires root permissions, so if you have root access, you can do 'sudo make install'. If you don't have root permissions, then you should instead choose a different installation during configure time (such as './configire --prefix="$HOME"') that you _can_ write to, and where your prefix (such as $HOME/bin) is in your PATH, and rebuild the software before attempting the installation. (In m4's case, you can also take the shortcut of 'make install prefix="$HOME"' without having to reconfigure and rebuild, although this doesn't necessarily work for all GNU software, because some programs encode the configured locations into the resulting binary). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl4etoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCEoACgijk7h3QZRaJbDtTgAFBKILZE uhAAnRVAhiVgldKnRGrteMZDupaHApq+ =kUr4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
