Re: Cannot create regular file under /usr/share/man/man1

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:14:48 +0100, Dominik George wrote:

>> I took a look at the good build, which is glimpse-4.18.5, and I see:
>> 
>> for d in glimpse.1 glimpseindex.1 glimpseserver.1 ; do \
>>                 /usr/bin/install -c -m 444 $d
>>                 /export/build/glimpse/bld/
>> glimpse-4.18.5/debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1 ; \
>>         done
> 
> Do you know what /export/build/glimpse/bld/glimpse-4.18.5/debian/tmp/
> is?

I admit that I didn't. 

> Tadaa ... it is ${DESTDIR}. Which leads us to the conclusion that, as
> stated in my initial reply, that the lack thereof is the culprit

So how to fix it then? Upstream has been dead for several years. I have 
fix it myself, but I don't know how. 

Please help. 
Thanks