walt wrote:
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> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Roland Hammerle wrote:
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>>Jansen Gotis wrote:
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>>>install in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/parser done
>>>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html:Permission denied
>>>*** Error code 1
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>>The problem is that mkhtmlindex is not defined anywhere but used here. It is
>>included from x11-server/xorg-server/Makefile.inc. Simply replace
>>{MKHTMLINDEX} with mkhtmlindex and it will work.
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> I spent an hour or two trying to debug that error and I never could figure
> it out. For future reference, could you tell us how you approached the
> problem and which tools you used?
>
> Thanks!
>
I am no expert when it comes to Makefile and similar stuff but I simply
tried to find the location of the error in the Makefile - adding a few
debug statements here and there. Since the install target is quite small
it wasn't too hard.