[Ffmpeg-devel] Bug in libavutil Makefile (or maybe just mystupidity? Be gentle...)

[Michel Bardiaux]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michel Bardiaux said:
> 
>>Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:10:26PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:33:44AM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>install -d /c/Program Files/FFmpeg/lib
>>>>>>./install: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `1)'
>>>>>>./install: line 2: `1) Type './configure' create the configuration (use
>>>>>>'./configure'
>>>>>>make: *** [install-libs] Error 2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The problem being probably that on a Windows machine, "INSTALL" and
>>>>>>"install" are the same file.
>>>>>
>>>>>*sigh*
>>>>
>>>>Meaning?
>>>
>>>
>>>Windows-only problem that may be very tricky to avoid without ugly
>>>workarounds..
>>
>>But in this particular case, would it not make sense to move all the
>>contents of INSTALL in the doc tree?
> 
> 
> Remove "." from your PATH 

Fixed the trouble. Now if I could only find where "." is set in the 
path... because my home under mingw is the same as my home under linux 
and cygwin and wrshdnt, my shell config scripts are rather a mess...

> and/or remoeve execute permissions from the INSTALL
> file might fix it.  Yes, ntfs has an execute bit, but it defaults to being
> set for all files.  Stupid, yes.  Surprising, no.
> 
My ffmpeg root is on linux via samba. According to ls -al, the x bit is 
not set, neither in the linux view nor in the mingw/msys view.

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