make install: [install-data-yes] error 127

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:13:08 -0000

I encountered this problem when running "make install"
for Infinity-0.5.8:

OUTPUT:
Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/[...]/infinity-plugin-0.5.8/po'
/bin/sh `case "@MKINSTALLDIRS@" in /*) echo
"@MKINSTALLDIRS@" ;; *) echo "../@MKINSTALLDIRS@" ;;
esac` /usr/share
../@MKINSTALLDIRS@: ../@MKINSTALLDIRS@: Datei oder
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Fehler 127

Last two lines in English would be:
../@MKINSTALLDIRS@: ../@MKINSTALLDIRS@: no such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] error 127

I fixed this successfully by doing this:
In file po/Makefile:
replace "MKINSTALLDIRS = @MKINSTALLDIRS@" by
"MKINSTALLDIRS = mkinstalldirs"

System:
SuSE Linux 9.1
gcc 3.3.3
GNU Make 3.80

Hope, this is useful.
Greetz,
Sebastian

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