[LLVMdev] llvm installation failure

[Ryan M. Lefever]

I was able to fix the problem by re-configuring, re-making, and 
reinstalling llvm.  I must have made a typo somewhere.  It was weird 
because everything else installed to the prefix directory, but libc.a 
tried to install to /lib.

Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> I am trying to make and install a version of llvm that I check out of 
> cvs last night.  When I configured LLVM, I set the prefix to a directory 
> inside my home directory.  However, when I did a make install I got the 
> following errors:
> 
> llvm[3]: Installing Debug Bytecode Archive /lib/libc.a
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/lib/libc.a': Permission 
> denied
> make[3]: *** [/lib/libc.a] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/performA/users/lefever/testbed-work/llvm-cvs-070325/runtime/GCCLibraries/libc'
> make[2]: *** [libc/.makeinstall] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/performA/users/lefever/testbed-work/llvm-cvs-070325/runtime/GCCLibraries'
> make[1]: *** [GCCLibraries/.makeinstall] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/performA/users/lefever/testbed-work/llvm-cvs-070325/runtime'
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> 
> It appears to be that lvm is trying to install something into /lib which 
> is not the prefix that I set. Does anyone know the problem?  Is there 
> something wrong with one of the makefiles?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
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Ryan M. Lefever  [http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~lefever]