Re: is anyone else having trouble with "make htmldocs"?

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Brandon Philips wrote:

> On 16:40 Fri 30 Nov 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   with an up-to-date git tree, freshly cleaned, i'm getting:
> >
> > $ make htmldocs
> >   HTML   Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.html
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/Documentation': Permission denied
> > cp: target `/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook' is not a directory
> > make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.html] Error 1
> > make: *** [htmldocs] Error 2
> > $
>
> What is the permission on the Documentation directory?  Is it owned by
> the user running make?
>
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/Documentation': Permission denied
> Also, did you edit this line?  It seems odd.

never mind, i figured it out.  just some bad nonsense hanging around
in my shell environment.

rday
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