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From: | James Jong |
Subject: | Re: [Help-stow] Errors when trying to bootstrap Stow |
Date: | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:22:26 -0400 |
Hi James,
It never rains but it pours ... this sounds remarkably similar to this
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)`
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
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