Xen devel - Feb 2005 - make install doesn''t detect missing prerequisites

I noted a while back that a change in the build scripts had caused
''make
install'' to bypass the install.sh script and do the install manually. 
I
personally didn''t care for the change since it also bypassed the
symlink
creation for kernels in /boot.  I noticed today that it also missed a
somewhat important piece since the call to chk is now missing and make
install happily installs even if some important pieces are missing.  For
instance, after a successful call to make install, I ran install.sh and
saw:

# ./install.sh
Installing Xen from ''./install'' to ''/''...
/home/plars/cvs/xen/xeno-unstable.bk/dist
cp: cannot overwrite non-directory `/etc/init.d'' with directory
`./install/etc/init.d''
All done.
Checking to see whether prerequisite tools are installed...
FAILED check_brctl
FAILED check_twisted
Checks failed.
See /home/plars/cvs/xen/xeno-unstable.bk/dist/check/.chkinstall for
details.
All done.

-- 
Thanks,
Paul Larson
plars@linuxtestproject.org
http://www.linuxtestproject.org

> I noted a while back that a change in the build scripts had 
> caused ''make
> install'' to bypass the install.sh script and do the install 
> manually.  I
> personally didn''t care for the change since it also bypassed 
> the symlink
> creation for kernels in /boot.  
<sigh> 

What behaviour do we want for ''make install''? Just running
install.sh to
do the checking and then copy the stuff from dist/install seems sane.

Anyone disagree?

Ian

I noticed today that it also missed a
> somewhat important piece since the call to chk is now missing and make
> install happily installs even if some important pieces are 
> missing.  For
> instance, after a successful call to make install, I ran 
> install.sh and
> saw:
> 
> # ./install.sh
> Installing Xen from ''./install'' to
''/''...
> /home/plars/cvs/xen/xeno-unstable.bk/dist
> cp: cannot overwrite non-directory `/etc/init.d'' with directory
> `./install/etc/init.d''
> All done.
> Checking to see whether prerequisite tools are installed...
> FAILED check_brctl
> FAILED check_twisted
> Checks failed.
> See /home/plars/cvs/xen/xeno-unstable.bk/dist/check/.chkinstall for
> details.
> All done.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson
> plars@linuxtestproject.org
> http://www.linuxtestproject.org
> 

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