Ticket #4551 (closed defect: invalid)
"Text file busy" error when compiling Midnight Commander
| Reported by: | ilson | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | compilation | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
Hi, I found a bug in the MC package of my Linux distribution and wanted to compile MC from source to see if the bug is reproducible there before reporting it.
However after I run
./autogen.sh
I get this error:
autoreconf: error: cannot rename config/h5gmL4fQBl as config/install-sh: Text file busy
What may be the problem?
Thanks!
Change History
comment:2 Changed 6 months ago by ilson
Sorry, turns out I should have downloaded the source from http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2, and I did from https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/archive/refs/heads/master.zip. Those differ, and with the former the usual set of commands for compiling:
./configure make sudo make install
resulted in successful installation of MC.
comment:3 Changed 6 months ago by zaytsev
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to invalid
- Milestone Future Releases deleted
No idea why on your system you are unable to bootstrap the autotools build system, but in any case it has nothing to do with mc. If you can't or don't want to bootstrap the build system, then you can indeed download official release tarballs with already bootstrapped build system for you instead of checking out of the version control system.
