xinstall error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 21, 2018, at 21:46, Mark Brethen wrote:

> I’m trying to install a list of files into directory:
> 
>    foreach app {reduce.app bootstrapreduce.app csl} {
>        xinstall -p -W ${cslbuilddir}/csl/${app} ${libexecdir}/csl
>        ln -s ${destroot}${applications_dir}/${name}/${app} ${libexecdir}/csl/${app}
>    }
> 
> however I get an error:
> 
> :error:destroot Failed to destroot reduce: xinstall usage: xinstall [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-W dir] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
> :error:destroot                [-o owner] file1 file2
> :error:destroot        xinstall [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-W dir] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
> :error:destroot                [-o owner] file1 ... fileN directory
> :error:destroot        xinstall -d [-v] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...

Right. You need to tell xinstall what to copy from, and where to copy to. You've only listed a single thing: ${libexecdir}/csl.

The arguments "-W ${cslbuilddir}/csl/${app}" mean "change to the directory ${cslbuilddir}/csl/${app} before doing anything". I think perhaps that's not what you meant, and you just didn't mean to use "-W" and should remove it.