Installation pains and blocks

[danshumaker]

Hi,
Just letting you know of some installation pains and some blockers.

mac OSX High Sierra + homebrew and the latest commit: a585507

running "sudo make install PREFIX=/usr" as example says caused a mkdir -p ///usr/bin to be executed. So inside the Make file I see that ROOT is set to / already so no need to include a slash between the $(ROOT)/$(PREFIX), furthermore "sudo make install PREFIX=usr" caused a permission denied error because that dir has some acl's on it. This did the trick though

"sudo make install PREFIX=usr/local"

Then after running arbash-init to create my template and attempting to "feed it back to argbash" I also get permission denied as follows:

BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>argbash rebuild.atmpl
cat: /usr/local/lib/argbash/argbash-lib.m4: Permission denied
cat: /usr/local/lib/argbash/output.m4: Permission denied

Error during autom4te run, aborting!

BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/bin/argbash*
BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>argbash rebuild.atmpl
cat: /usr/local/lib/argbash/argbash-lib.m4: Permission denied
cat: /usr/local/lib/argbash/output.m4: Permission denied

Error during autom4te run, aborting!

BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/arg*
BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>argbash rebuild.atmpl
/


dan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>argbash rebuild.atmpl
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/m4:stdin:11: cannot open `collectors.m4': No such file or directory
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
Error during autom4te run, aborting!

I wasnt' sure if autoconf was installed so checked that:

BASHdan@ShuPro /Users/dan/bin/bash >>brew install autoconf
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 3 taps (homebrew/core, homebrew/php, caskroom/cask).
==> New Formulae
gocryptfs
==> Updated Formulae
homebrew/php/composer ✔            app-engine-java                    docfx                              faas-cli                           git-imerge                         hubflow                            pandoc-citeproc                    snapcraft                          stockfish
abnfgen                            coffeescript                       emscripten                         fn                                 grpc                               libmicrohttpd                      quantlib                           sourcekitten                       swiftformat
amber                              diamond                            etcd                               gammaray                           heroku                             mercurial                          snakemake                          sslyze

Warning: autoconf 2.69 is already installed

So I think all my permissions are straightened out but my system doesn't seem to have the "collectors.m4" file.. Whatever that is. Is it a missing library.

#blocked.

[matejak]

Hello, thank you for your time that you took to report the issue!
I will address sub-issues point by point:

1. sudo make install PREFIX=/<whatever> is still the recommended way how to install the software. The consecutive slashes s.a. mkdir -p ///<whatever>/bin are harmless. The Makefile is somehow more complicated inside in order to make it easy for package maintainers to package Argbash. So this is not an issue.
2. Indeed, the /usr directory is usually writable only by root. You chose a different location and installation worked for you. This is also not an issue.
3. Some files were not readable (or even accessible) - those were the "Permission denied" errors. You have solved them using chmod, but I see that a more straightforward error message would be much better for you.
4. The collectors.m4 file was missing from the Argbash package. I have fixed the tests so this is detected and I have also fixed this issue in the current master.

[matejak]

The point 3 has also been addressed in the master branch, so I will close this issue. Please reopen it if you still perceive rough edges!

[danshumaker]

I couldn't get it to work with the new commit, but I'll keep trying, time permitting.

[matejak]

This is very strange. The master branch should install fine. Could you please paste any errors that you get?

[matejak]

As you have not provided feedback and I believe that the issue is resolved, I close it. However, don't hesitate to reopen it if you disagree.