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Re: installing glibc-2.6 problem


On Fri 18 Jul 2014 04:18:21 ZhengJian wrote:
> I am trying to install glibc-2.6. The 'configure' and 'make' processes look
> good. But there are errors when 'make install'. Here are the error
> information:
> 
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 include/limits.h
> /home/jzheng/glibc-2.6/include/limits.h /usr/bin/install:
> `include/limits.h' and `/home/jzheng/glibc-2.6/include/limits.h' are the
> same file make[1]: *** [/home/jzheng/glibc-2.6/include/limits.h] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jzheng/glibc-2.6'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> I don't know what I should do.

please post the exact commands you ran for configure and make.  my guess is 
you passed a bad value to configure for its --prefix and now make install is 
trying to install into that bad place.  easy answer is to not use a bad 
prefix.
-mike

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