Re: Problem with makefile/configure on Solaris 5.5.1

[Bob Proulx]

Zachary, Andrew L [FI] <address@hidden> [2002-10-08 18:16:01 -0400]:
> A generic problem with installing under Solaris 5.5.1 -- the configure
> utility reports that the install command is
> 
>   /some_system_path/install -c
> 
> which then gets executed as
> 
> /some_system_path/install -c -m 644 install_location source_location
> 
> Unhappily, the make dies with the error message
> 
>       install: The -c, -f, -n optiions each require a directory following!
> 
> 
> What do I need to do to fix this problem? Is there a specific option
> to the configure script which will patch this apparent bug?

Purely as a workaround I would suggest overriding the install program
with the newly compiled install program.  That way the options will
work.  Something like this.  This is untested but I believe it would
work.

  make INSTALL=./src/install install

Or use the autoconf version which is shipped with most configure based
programs.

  make INSTALL=./install-sh install

Bob