[ofa-general] Error installing infiniband-diags

[Ira Weiny]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:39:12 -0700
Hal Rosenstock <hrosenstock at xsigo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:31:41 -0700
> > Hal Rosenstock <hrosenstock at xsigo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 04:28 -0700, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > > Hi Sasha,
> > > > 
> > > > When installing (OFED 1.3) infiniband-diags via make install, I get:
> > > > 
> > > > ./config/install-sh -m 444
> > > > scripts/IBswcountlimits.pm //usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/IBswcountlimits.pm
> > > > mv: cannot remove `scripts/IBswcountlimits.pm': Permission denied
> > > > make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1
> > > > 
> > > > Is it trying to move/remove the source script
> > > > (scripts/IBswcountlimits.pm) ? Any idea on what could be wrong ?
> > > 
> > > The following works however:
> > > ./config/install-sh -c -m 444 scripts/IBswcountlimits.pm //usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/IBswcountlimits.pm
> > > 
> > > Should -c be added ?
> > 
> > Not according my help page:
> 
> but it makes it work so that's not definitive

Well from your other email it looks like it should be added.  I wonder if this
is a deprecated feature though?  Al and I thought your version would tell you
what it does.

Ira

> 
> > 08:48:11 > ./infiniband-diags/config/install-sh --help
> > Usage: ./infiniband-diags/config/install-sh [OPTION]... [-T] SRCFILE DSTFILE
> > 
> >    ...
> > 
> > Options:
> > -c         (ignored)
> > 
> >    ...
> > 
> > Is your install program different?  I see the same thing in "man install"
> > on my machines.
> 
> config/install-sh --help
> config/install-sh: --help does not exist
> 
> > Ira