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  • From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
  • To: Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>
  • Cc: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]installing grep
  • Date: 22 Nov 2002 11:15:50 -0700

Jonathan,

Thank you! That worked beautifly!

Bearcat

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:20, Jonathan Evraire wrote:
> Hi Bearcat,
> I had this problem myself. I moved egrep and fgrep from /usr/bin to
> /bin. Turns out the spell needs these to complete properly, but if you've
> got them the spell chokes 'cause it can't replace the symlinks. By moving
> them to /bin, the spell can still use them and there's nothing to replace
> so it can successfully create the symlinks.
>
> After casting, be sure to remove the files in /bin.
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com
>
>
> On 22 Nov 2002, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I know this is probably a simple one, but i can't get grep to cast.
> > During the install porion i get:
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
> > ! Problem Detected !
> > /usr/bin/install -c grep /usr/bin/grep
> > ln -s grep /usr/bin/egrep
> > ln: `/usr/bin/egrep': File exists
> > make[2]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > I've tried renaming that /usr/bin/egrep but that does nto work. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> > Bearcat
> >
> >
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