Re: Mharc...

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On May 30, 2002 at 09:42, Sean M Alderman wrote:

> I realize this is a new package and it's as is, but I got an interesting
> error trying to configure mharc on a Sun Netra running Solaris 8...
> 
> [smalder@aragorn:mharc-0.2.1]$ make configure
> bin/apply-config -verbose
> /bin/cp bin/../cgi-bin/template/NMZ.body.in.dist
> bin/../cgi-bin/template/NMZ.body.in
> cp: cannot access bin/../cgi-bin/template/NMZ.body.in.dist
> system /bin/cp bin/../cgi-bin/template/NMZ.body.in.dist
> bin/../cgi-bin/template/NMZ.body.in failed: 512
> make: *** [configure] Error 2
> 
> It seemed strange to me that the file paths would have
> <dir>/../<anotherdir> in them.  Is this supposed to be this way?

Yes.  It is a valid pathname.  The software is designed to work
relative to itself.

What version of perl are you using?  I had another user experience
the same problem (but under BSD), and once he upgraded Perl, it
was fixed.

The real problem is you need a newer version of the File::Find
module that supports the -no_chdir option.  v5.6.1 of Perl, and later,
is known to have a version of File::Find that supports the option.

I may be able to modify mharc to work-around this problem so it
would work with older versions, but have not looked into it yet.

--ewh