Bug 79420 – Install of xterm-197 fails: /bin/install: `xterm' is a directory

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Håkan Wessberg 2005-01-24 23:37:39 UTC]

Install of xterm fails, install complains that xterm is a directory:

>>> Install xterm-197 into /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image/ category x11-terms
/bin/sh ./mkdirs.sh /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image//usr/bin
mkdir /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image/usr
mkdir /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image/usr/bin
/bin/sh ./sinstall.sh "/bin/install -c" xterm  /usr/bin/xterm /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image//usr/bin/`echo xterm|  sed 's/$//'|sed 's,x,x,'|sed 's/$//'`
checking for presumed installation-mode
... if "/usr/bin/xterm" is null, try the ls -g option
... if "/usr/bin/xterm" is null, we do not look for group
... if we have date in proper columns (Oct 18 12:25), "" is null
... derived user "root", group "root" of previously-installed xterm
... see if mode "-rwxr-xr-x" has s-bit set
... installing xterm as user "root", group "root"
/bin/install -c -m 755   xterm /bapp/portage/tmp/portage/xterm-197/image//usr/bin/xterm
/bin/install: `xterm' is a directory
make: *** [install-full] Error 1

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 18 2004, 10:54:58)]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.7.9
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r3
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -mcpu=athlon-mp -Os -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -mcpu=athlon-mp -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/bapp/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache collision-protect distlocks nodoc sandbox sfperms suidctl userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/bapp/portage/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo crypt cscope diet dlloader emacs encode esd exif f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib jpeg ldap libg++ libwww ltsp mad maildir mcal mikmod mime mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres qt quicktime readline samba sdl sftplogging slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svg tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-01-25 13:20:26 UTC]

Please attach a full compilation log.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-01-25 13:21:10 UTC]

Also if you could check with xterm-199, that'd help.

[Comment 3 Håkan Wessberg 2005-01-26 04:50:19 UTC]

Created attachment 49554 [details]
Full compilaton log

Forget this report, pilot error!
Borken $TERMINFO, it was set to xterm, resulting in a lot of weirdness during
configure... 
With TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo installation works as expected.
Sorry for the noise :)

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-01-26 11:30:36 UTC]

OK, thanks for looking into it.