[X-Unix] curl install problem

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hello Phill,

On Nov 14, 2004, at 8:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> I'm trying to update curl from Jag's 7.7.2 to 7.10.7 in order to 
> install WWW::Curl but I'm puzzled by the make install errors I'm 
> getting:

	DarwinPorts currently offers curl 7.12.2, but I'm not too sure how it 
compiles on Jaguar (apparently there are very few DP users with 
Jaguar). You can ask in the dp mailing list, have a look at 
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org for more info. However,...

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> /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/bin/man/man3
> mkdir /usr/bin/man
> mkdir: /usr/bin/man: File exists
> mkdir /usr/bin/man/man3
> mkdir: /usr/bin/man/man3: Not a directory
> make[6]: *** [install-man3] Error 1
> make[5]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[4]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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	This is a *really* weird choice for a man directory, even more if you 
consider this is a "third party" installation. That dir should be 
either /usr/local/man or /usr/local/share/man, unless you specified 
something else in the "configure" script

>
> It seems to be trying to make a directory called man3 which I can't 
> quite figure out.

	Curl has a lot of man pages which belong in the 3rd section of the 
online manual, which is why it needs that dir. Though why the creation 
of the man3 dir is failing, however weird the path might be, escapes 
me, I'd have to look at the installation section of the Makefile to 
figure it out, but that is not something currently under my reach.

>
> Any advice appreciated.

	Have a look at DarwinPorts!

>
> Regards,
>
>     Phil (please cc me if possible: I'm on digest).
>

	Regards,...


		Juan