Re: [Help-stow] Errors when trying to bootstrap Stow

[Adam Spiers]

Hi James,

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:17:47PM -0400, James Jong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have posted the following question at the Unix StackExchange site (in
> case you prefer to read it there):
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72344/errors-when-using-gnu-stow
> 
> I am trying to get started with GNU stow without luck. I have defined
> `STOW_DIR` to point to a personal path:
> 
>     STOW_DIR=/some/path
> 
> I then build a package of my choice from the tarball and install it under
> `STOW_DIR`. In this case, I am building `stow` itself (i.e. I am
> bootstrapping stow itself into stow, which is something that Stow supports):
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=$STOW_DIR/stow
>     make
>     make install prefix=$STOW_DIR/stow
> 
> And then I build the symlinks:
> 
>     cd $STOW_DIR
>     ./stow/bin/stow stow
> 
> but at this point I get the following error:
> 
> > `stow: ERROR: The stow directory ../../../../some/path does not contain
> package stow (No such file or directory)`

It never rains but it pours ... this sounds remarkably similar to this
issue which was coincidentally reported and fixed in the last 48
hours:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs/8820

Does your STOW_DIR involve symlinks?  Please read that thread,
see if it applies in your case, and let me know.

Thanks!
Adam