xorg install problem

[Roland Hammerle]

walt wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Roland Hammerle wrote:


Jansen Gotis wrote:


install in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/parser done
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html:Permission denied
*** Error code 1


The problem is that mkhtmlindex is not defined anywhere but used here. It is
included from x11-server/xorg-server/Makefile.inc. Simply replace
{MKHTMLINDEX} with mkhtmlindex and it will work.


I spent an hour or two trying to debug that error and I never could figure
it out.  For future reference, could you tell us how you approached the
problem and which tools you used?
Thanks!

I am no expert when it comes to Makefile and similar stuff but I simply 
tried to find the location of the error in the Makefile - adding a few 
debug statements here and there. Since the install target is quite small 
it wasn't too hard.