#1 Installation

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am trying to install your software and am getting the
following error.

Installing files in bricks_root to
/usr/local/bin/bricks
chown: /usr/local/bin/bricks/data/*: No such file or
directory
make: *** [bricks_root_install] Error 1

I don't know if this is a bug or if I am just crazy
(I'm betting that I am crazy). The directory
/usr/local/bin/bricks/data/ does exist and the chown
appears to work as the owner of the dir is
nobody/nobody. Never the less the install crashes here.

[Peter McDermott]

Logged In: YES
user_id=170076

Thanks for your bug report.

The problem may be with chown or may be a shell
difference . The line above is trying to chown everything
in /usr/local/bin/bricks/data. Maybe your chown only
allows a chown of single files? Or maybe your shell isn't
expanding '*' to all the files in the directory.

Three questions:

1. What OS are you running?
2. What shell are you using?
3. Can you 'chown nobody /usr/local/bin/bricks/data/[some
file]' where some file is the name of a file in that
directory?

Thanks,

Peter

[Pascal Fleury]

Logged In: YES
user_id=93772

Are you sure the file exists ? Isn't it
/usr/local/bricks/bricks_root/data ?
If this is the case, the fix is as follows: edit line 86 in
file Makefile.PL to look exactly like this:

\@\$\(CP\) -r bricks\_root/\* $$rconf\{bricks\_root\}

(Note this is just adding a '*' after bricks_root/)
Then rerun perl Makefile.PL, make and make install.

The reason is that without the star, the directory
bricks_root gets copied into /usr/local/bricks, and wiuth
the star only the content of that dir is copied (which si
what is wanted).

Pascal