Configure problem--Gnucash-docs & Makefile.in

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Leslie Katz <lesliek at ozemail.com.au>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> The gnucash-docs tarball has no directory named "help/c".  It DOES have
>> a directory named "help/C".  I have no idea where "help/c" came from
>> on your system unless your system did something strange during the
>> unpackaging.
>>
> I'm content to proceed on the assumption that the fault was peculiar 
> to my system, but, at the same time, I'm very happy to follow any 
> instructions that you care to send me (provided they're pitched at my 
> very low level of understanding) if you think that the matter can and 
> should now be further investigated for the benefit of others. For 
> instance, is there some log file you'd like me to send you? If so, 
> I'll send it asap.

How about:

  tar -xzvf gnucash-docs.tar.gz > /tmp/tarlog

Then send in /tmp/tarlog

(you might need to capture /tmp/tarlog from stderr instead of stdout.
If you are using bash, you could do that via:

  tar -xzvf gnucash-docs.tar.gz 2> /tmp/tarlog

But try the first instance first.   This will tell tar to be more verbose
about it's extraction.   Is this how you unpackaged the tarball?  On the
command line?  Or did you use some GUI application?

> Leslie

-derek



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