rdesktop build on cygwin gone wrong

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Tue May 3 22:10:00 GMT 2005


On 5/3/2005 2:42 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> so, I built and used rdesktop with cygwin for a long time, but I had to 
> rebuild my laptop and now I was trying to build rdesktop with cygwin and 
> on the
> 
> make install
> 
> command, an extra / has been added to the path.  Here is the error:
> 
> <error>
> jic 17:03:08-> make install
> mkdir -p //usr/local/bin
> /usr/bin/install -c rdesktop //usr/local/bin
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `//usr/local/bin.exe': No such
> host or network path
> make: *** [installbin] Error 1
> </error>

It seems like a problem with Makefile.in. Apply the attached patch, then 
run "autoreconf -f && ./configure && make && make install".

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