GNU ddrescue 1.24 bugs

[David Morrison]

Due to a silly accident with a disk, I have had to resetup my disk 
recovery machine, meaning reinstalling everything including ddrescue. 
It has been a complicated process, but more on that later.

The uncompressing, configure and make were successful,  but make 
check failed as shown below. I managed to work out that this was 
because there was a space in the folder name that the .lz file was in 
before I uncompressed it.

So, for example, I had placed the .lz file in "ddrescue install" and 
worked on it from there. Most of the compile was ok, but I guess 
somewhere in the check part, there is an unquoted file/folder name.

When I renamed the folder to have no spaces, make check worked.

This then led to another problem with make install when it tried to 
install ddrescue into /usr/local/bin. It reported a permission error:

install: /usr/local/bin/ddrescue: Permission denied

I managed to overcome this by putting "sudo" before the "make 
install" command to allow it to overrride the permissions. Is this 
the right thing to do?

BTW, the same thing had to be done for make install for lzip.

This was Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Xcode 3.2.6 in an admin account - not 
root, but more privileged than ordinary users.)

David
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slrecovery:ddrescue-1.24$ make check
testing ddrescue-1.24... 116 134 161 162cmp: invalid --ignore-initial 
value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 163 167 168cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 169 172 173cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 174 178cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 179 183cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 184 186cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 187 191 192 194cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 196cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 197 200cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 201 202cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 203 206cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 207 208cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 209 213 215 217cmp: invalid --ignore-initial value `out'
cmp: Try `cmp --help' for more information.
 218cat: /Users/.../Desktop/ddrescue: No such file or directory
cat: instal/ddrescue-1.24/testsuite/mapfile1: No such file or directory
failure in testing framework
make: *** [check] Error 1
slrecovery:ddrescue-1.24$