Re: error: installing './INSTALL'; error while making link: File exists

2019-08-31 Thread Dan Kegel
I don't know what you're trying to make, but you could try cleaning the directory to remove stale symlinks first... or unpacking the source tarball into a clean directory and building there. Here's the code you're probably hitting, fwiw: ``` # Install the missing file. Symlink if we

error: installing './INSTALL'; error while making link: File exists

2019-08-31 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, Googling doesn't get me any answers and I cannot rebuild until autoreconf is gotten working. The embedded autoreconf step that fails is automake. I have no idea at all what the message is really trying to say. Help, please? $ automake --add-missing --no-force Makefile.am: error: installing '.