[BRLTTY] Alva BC680

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Tami Kinney on 2012/03/01 at 19:23 -0800]

>/usr/bin/install -c -d /bin
>test -z "/var/run/brltty" || /usr/bin/install -c -d /var/run/brltty
>/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/var/run/brltty': File exists
>make[1]: *** [install-writable-directory] Error 1

This error looks rather interesting. The -d option of the install command is 
for creating a directory. It's not supposed to complain if the directory 
already exists. When install -d was used to create /bin, which surely does 
already exist, it correctly silently ignored the condition. When, however, it 
was used to create /var/run/brltty, it complained that it already exists and 
then failed. That's not supposed to happen.

My guess is that /var/run/brltty on your system does exist but isn't a 
directory. Can you check this out? If it's a symbolic link, what's it pointing 
to? If it's a file, what's in it?

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