[mdlug] Compile error

[Carl T. Miller]

I'm thinking that mkdir -p might not be able to
create a directory if there's already a file
that's not a directory or if selinux is preventing
access.  what is the output of this command?

ls -ldZ /opt /opt/gimp296 /opt/gimp/share

c


Bob wrote:
> I'm trying to build the latest version of Gimp.
> ./configure completed without issues.
> Make completed without issues.
>
> Running as root, I use checkinstall to install the programs and create a
> .deb packages. I had to do this for one of the Gimp dependence’s, so I
> now it works.
>
> I'm getting the following error which I have never seen before. The "
> /opt/gimp296/" directory already exists. mkdir -p is superposed to
> create " share/aclocal "Â  if I run " mkdir -p
> '/opt/gimp296/share/aclocal " on the command line it works fine. It seem
> the " -p " option is not doing what it's supposed to. This also happened
> when I used the default directory " /user/local/shared/ ". Any thoughts?
>
> /bin/mkdir -p '/opt/gimp296/share/aclocal'
> /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/gimp296/share’: No such file
> or directory
> Makefile:613: recipe for target 'install-m4dataDATA' failed
>
> --
>
> Bob Dion
>
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