Re: xorg install problem

[Roland Hammerle <rjh@xxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Roland Hammerle wrote:
>
>
> > Jansen Gotis wrote:
>
>
> > > install in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/parser done
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html:Permission denied
> > > *** Error code 1
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> 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.