Re: make install fails due to "/bin/mkdir: missing operand"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Kenichiro Tanaka <ketanaka(at)ashisuto(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: make install fails due to "/bin/mkdir: missing operand"
Date: 2010-05-10 16:49:43
Message-ID: 12053.1273510183@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Excerpts from Kenichiro Tanaka's message of lun may 10 07:07:27 -0400 2010:
>> ./configure --enable-nls='UFT_JP' --prefix=/home/p900/posgrehome

> I think this is pilot error, in the sense that it doesn't fail if you
> don't pass an invalid language name. Maybe the bug is that we allow
> --enable-nls to pass down junk down to the install Makefile, instead of
> erroring out right there.

Yeah, I don't think this is the makefile's fault. If we wanted to do
something to make it more user-friendly, we'd try to validate the value
of --enable-nls at configure time.

regards, tom lane

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