xinstall error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 21, 2018, at 23:42, Ryan Schmidt  wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2018, at 23:30, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Also, xinstall is only for creating directories or copying individual files. If reduce.app and bootstrapreduce.app are macOS apps, then they aren't files; they're directories. To copy directories (or files), use copy.
> 
> You also need ${destroot} preceding the destination. I am presuming that the value of the variable ${libexecdir} is something like ${prefix}/libexec and does not already begin with ${destroot}.
> 
> You also transposed the source and target of the symlink command.
> 
> The fixed loop is probably:
> 
>  foreach app {reduce.app bootstrapreduce.app csl} {
>      copy ${cslbuilddir}/csl/${app} ${destroot}${libexecdir}/csl
>      ln -s ${libexecdir}/csl/${app} ${destroot}${applications_dir}/${name}/${app}
>  }
> 

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