[ESS] Errors in Makefile

[Rodney Sparapani]

Neil Shephard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use a GNU/Linux distribution called Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/)
> that installs _everything_ from source.
> 
> With the recent new release of ess-5.3.10 I requested a version bump
> for the ess version that is in this distributions package management
> system and was informed by the maintainer that there is a minor error
> in the doc/Makefile that means that the ${DOCDIR}/html and
> ${DOCDIR}/refcard directories are not created, as the following lines
> are thrown up....
> 
> cp -p html/ess.html html/readme.html
> /var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/ess-5.3.10/image//usr/share/doc/ess-5.3.10/html
> cp: target
> `/var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/ess-5.3.10/image//usr/share/doc/ess-5.3.10/html' is
> not a directory
> make[1]: *** [install-other-docs] Error 1
> 
> 
> Its a minor problem as it doesn't prevent installation of ESS at all,
> and a workaround has been added to the package management system to
> overcome this (packages are installed via scripts called ebuilds and
> the build now creates that directory), but I felt it pertinent to
> report back on this.
> 
> Thanks for all the work the writers and maintainers put into ESS its
> very much appreciated.
> 
> Neil
> 

Thanks Neil.  I discovered this myself and I was rather disappointed
at that.  The fix is checked into SVN if anyone else needs it.

Happy New Year!

Rodney