Thank you... Sorry I was budy on ms windows dev for a while... Yes I didn't need the doc and the lib was installed anyway, it's just it tagged a failure on my dependency install. Garry. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Dan Nicholson <<a href="mailto:dbn.lists@gmail.com">dbn.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Garry Iglesias <<a href="mailto:garry.iglesias@gmail.com">garry.iglesias@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this problem has already been mentioned, but I couldn't find > any question nor bug about it... > > I'm building a libX11 and libXext as static libraries in a local tree as > third party dependencies of a framework I'm working on. It's been > working like a charm for 3 years, but I recently (yesterday) upgraded > to the last versions of the libs. And I encounter a failure on install: > make install doesn't use the prefix and try to write directly into > /usr/share/ which is a problem: > > ============================================ > libX11 build log: > > [...] > Making install in libX11 > make[2]: Entering directory > `/shared-a/nshq/dev/ns2/third-party/Xlib/libX11-1.4.3/specs/libX11' > make[3]: Entering directory > `/shared-a/nshq/dev/ns2/third-party/Xlib/libX11-1.4.3/specs/libX11' > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > test -z "/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11" > || /usr/bin/mkdir -p > "/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11" > /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 libX11.xml AppA.xml AppB.xml AppC.xml > AppD.xml CH01.xml CH02.xml CH03.xml CH04.xml CH05.xml CH06.xml > CH07.xml CH08.xml CH09.xml CH10.xml CH11.xml CH12.xml CH13.xml > CH14.xml CH15.xml CH16.xml credits.xml glossary.xml > '/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11' > test -z "/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs" || /usr/bin/mkdir -p "/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs" > /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 libX11.html.db libX11.fo.db > '/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs' > /usr/bin/ginstall: cannot remove > `/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/libX11.html.db': Permission denied </div></div>I think this must be picking up your host's pkg-config file for xorg-sgml-doctools that determine where to install the cross reference databases for the documents. Do you see the following line during configure? checking for X.Org SGML entities >= 1.7... /usr/share/sgml The fix is either to install a new copy of xorg-sgml-doctools for your prefix before libX11/libXext, or just disable the build of the spec docs with --disable-specs. If you're just installing X as a dependency, you may not care about the spec docs (they take a long time to build, too). I think the next release of these modules will have that fixed so the files follow --prefix, but I don't know when that will be. -- Dan </blockquote></div>