geomview makefile problem

[russo at rudedog.nrl.navy.mil (Kevin Russo)]

Hi,

While installing geomview on my machine, make dies with this error message:

   /etc/install: can't make directory /../../../lib/sgi: Permission denied.
   *** Error code 13
   Stop.

I traced the problem to the ${INSTALL} line in the forms makefile:
	~geomview/src/lib/forms/Makefile
	${INSTALL} -O -v -m 555 -F ${GEOM}/lib/${MACHTYPE} libforms.a;

It turns out that /etc/install always tries to install files relative to
the ROOT environment variable.
Eg:
	${ROOT}/${GEOM}/lib/${MACHTYPE}/files     rather than just
	${GEOM}/lib/${MACHTYPE}/files

If you've never encountered this problem you probably don't have the
ROOT env var set on your systems. In my case, $ROOT was set to "/" and
hence the leading slash in the error message. 

You may want to modify any makefiles that do an /etc/install to
unsetenv ROOT.  It's a minor problem, but it does stop the compilation
procedure dead in its tracks.

Kevin Russo
SFA, Inc. / US Naval Research Lab          Washington, DC