Re: make install fails due to "/bin/mkdir: missing operand"

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Kenichiro Tanaka <ketanaka(at)ashisuto(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make install fails due to "/bin/mkdir: missing operand"
Date: 2010-05-13 14:38:18
Message-ID: 1273761498.32172.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On mån, 2010-05-10 at 11:40 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Kenichiro Tanaka's message of lun may 10 07:07:27 -0400 2010:
>
> > Reproduce case:
> > #prefix and with-pgport are not important
> > ./configure --enable-nls='UFT_JP' --prefix=/home/p900/posgrehome
> > --with-pgport=1900
> > make && make install
>
> I think this is pilot error, in the sense that it doesn't fail if you
> don't pass an invalid language name. Maybe the bug is that we allow
> --enable-nls to pass down junk down to the install Makefile, instead of
> erroring out right there.

The language name in his example is obviously wrong, but in general this
case if valid. Even if you use something "correct" like
--enable-nls='de es fr', but one subdirectory doesn't have any of those,
the mkdir call would fail.

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2010-05-13 15:06:56 Re: pg_upgrade code questions
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2010-05-13 14:36:01 Re: make install fails due to "/bin/mkdir: missing operand"