Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. Thanks, Siegfried
Brian wrote: So as a workaround, try "make install DESTDIR=/" which would result in "///foo/bar" which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems that reserve // for network paths. Or, you could actually use DESTDIR in the way it's designed (which is probably why this was never noticed when e.g. creating the grep packages.) Also, knock this off: > cd c:/cygwin/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/ cd /usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/ make install DESTDIR=/ Making install in intl make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/intl' if test "grep" = "gettext" \ && test '' = 'intl-compat.o'; then \ /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` //usr/local/lib //usr/local/include; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.h //usr/local/include/libintl.h; \ @LIBTOOL@ --mode=install \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.a //usr/local/lib/libintl.a; \ else \ : ; \ fi if test 'no' = yes; then \ test no != no || /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` //usr/local/lib; \ temp=//usr/local/lib/t-charset.alias; \ dest=//usr/local/lib/charset.alias; \ if test -f //usr/local/lib/charset.alias; then \ orig=//usr/local/lib/charset.alias; \ sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \ rm -f $temp; \ else \ if test no = no; then \ orig=charset.alias; \ sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \ rm -f $temp; \ fi; \ fi; \ /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` //usr/local/share/locale; \ test -f //usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias \ && orig=//usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias \ || orig=./locale.alias; \ temp=//usr/local/share/locale/t-locale.alias; \ dest=//usr/local/share/locale/locale.alias; \ sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \ rm -f $temp; \ else \ : ; \ fi if test "grep" = "gettext"; then \ /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` //usr/local/share/gettext/intl; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 VERSION //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/VERSION; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ChangeLog.inst //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/ChangeLog; \ dists="COPYING.LIB-2.0 COPYING.LIB-2.1 Makefile.in config.charset locale.alias ref-add.sin ref-del.sin gmo.h gettextP.h hash-string.h plural-exp.h eval-plural.h os2compat.h libgnuintl.h loadinfo.h bindtextdom.c dcgettext.c dgettext.c gettext.c finddomain.c loadmsgcat.c localealias.c textdomain.c l10nflist.c explodename.c dcigettext.c dcngettext.c dngettext.c ngettext.c plural.y plural-exp.c localcharset.c localename.c osdep.c os2compat.c intl-compat.c"; \ for file in $dists; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file \ //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \ done; \ chmod a+x //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/config.charset; \ dists="plural.c"; \ for file in $dists; do \ if test -f $file; then dir=.; else dir=.; fi; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $dir/$file \ //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \ done; \ dists="xopen-msg.sed linux-msg.sed po2tbl.sed.in cat-compat.c COPYING.LIB-2 gettext.h libgettext.h plural-eval.c"; \ for file in $dists; do \ rm -f //usr/local/share/gettext/intl/$file; \ done; \ else \ : ; \ fi make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/intl' Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ .././mkinstalldirs ///usr/local/share; \ else \ /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs ///usr/local/share; \ fi mkdir //usr mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr': No such host or network path mkdir //usr/local mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local': No such host or network path mkdir //usr/local/share mkdir: cannot create directory `//usr/local/share': No such host or network path make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Oct 4 15:11:53 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/