make install error in snapshot

[David Jarvie]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:39, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 06:35 AM 4/12/2006, David Jarvie wrote:
> >On Wed Apr 12  0:32 , David Faure <faure at kde.org> sent:
> >>On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:29, David Jarvie wrote:
> >>> After running cmake and make on a newly checked out snapshot, I ran
> >>> 'make install'. This produced the following error:
> >>>
> >>> Linking CXX shared library CMakeFiles/CMakeRelink.dir/libkdnssd.so
> >>> Install the project...
> >>> -- Install configuration: "Release"
> >>> -- Installing /opt/kde4.0/include/kde.pot
> >>> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> >>> /home/david/src/svn/obj/kdelibs4_snapshot/cmake_install.cmake:20:
> >>> FILE INSTALL cannot copy
> >
> >file "/home/david/src/svn/kdelibs4_snapshot/kde.pot"
> >
> >>> to "/opt/kde4.0/include/kde.pot".
> >>> make: *** [install] Error 255
> >>>
> >>> The source file exists, so there's no obvious reason why the install
> >>> should fail.
> >>
> >>Do you have write access to /opt/kde4.0 ?
> >
> >Yes. It successfully installed a lot of other stuff first into /opt/kde4.0
> >before failing.
>
> Does /home/david/src/svn/kdelibs4_snapshot/kde.pot exist?
> Does this exist : /opt/kde4.0/include/kde.pot
>
> Can you copy it by hand cp /home/david/src/svn/kdelibs4_snapshot/kde.pot
> /opt/kde4.0/include/kde.pot? If you try that what is the error?

I couldn't see any permissions problems, so I tried running "make install" 
again. This time it worked successfully. Very strange... Thanks to those who 
responded.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html