make install fails

[peterjschroeder]

make install fails with this error

install -D /usr/local/bin
install: missing destination file operand after '/usr/local/bin'
Try 'install --help' for more information.
Makefile:23: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 1

This is on Debian Sid, gcc 7.2.0

[larrykollar]

Workaround: change the first four lines under install: to read:

install $(INSTFLAGS) -d $(BINDIR)
install $(INSTFLAGS) -d $(SHAREDIR)
install $(INSTFLAGS) -d $(MANDIR)/man1
install $(INSTFLAGS) -d $(MANDIR)/man7

Of course, that will break on non-Linux installs. I have a patch that should make all this faffing around unnecessary, and will post it to the dev branch after I finish testing.

[peterjschroeder]

Thank you.

[larrykollar]

Just pushed an update that should fix this, and make it unnecessary to fiddle with the Makefile further. Please test!

[peterjschroeder]

It still fails. It looks like the capital D is for non-cygwin windows only and everything else uses the lowercase d? If so something like this works.

ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
INSTFLAGS=-D
else
INSTFLAGS=-d
endif

[aThorp96]

I just ran into this issue as well. In the Makefile's documentation it claims Linux needs -D while BSD and MacOS need -d. However I've checked Manjaro and Ubuntu and the install implimentation needs the -d flag for the use make wants.