make: *** [Makefile:108: install] Error 1

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I have been getting this error for a while and a lot of discussions where they had this error, they got a directory in the brackets .
I got this error after trying “sudo make install”
this is the full log except for warnings:

  Argument not separated from preceding token by whitespace.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  EXTERNAL/cmake_install.cmake:42 (include)
  cmake_install.cmake:80 (include)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Error at EXTERNAL/freeglut/cmake_install.cmake:41 (if):
  if given arguments:

    "EXISTS" "/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal" ".so" "AND" "NOT" "IS_SYMLINK" "/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal" ".so"

  Unknown arguments specified
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  EXTERNAL/cmake_install.cmake:42 (include)
  cmake_install.cmake:80 (include)


make: *** [Makefile:108: install] Error 1

I just want to know where I should look to find the error and try fixing it

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The keywords used inside the if condition are:

  • EXISTS
  • AND NOT IS_SYMLINK

Both expect 1 path or filename. But as you can see, there were given two arguments, a base name and an extension.
So you probably have a superfluous space somewhere in your filename definition, which effectively makes a list.

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First sorry for the late reply I had a busy 24hrs.

The line below is the line at

EXTERNAL/freeglut/cmake_install.cmake

  if(EXISTS "$ENV{DESTDIR}/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal"".so" AND
     NOT IS_SYMLINK "$ENV{DESTDIR}/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal"".so")

so what I did was check

/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/

and I found the file named *libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal.so

what I did try was remove the “” between minimal and .so but it did not work, so I tried removing $ENV{DESTDIR} before /home and it also gave me the same error.

I am new to this so I did not understand what you meant by superfluous space except for the quotations that I removed but put again.

4

The "" in the middle of the path makes two arguments. CMake doesn’t do Bash’s embedded quote syntax; the code generating this needs to be checked. Can you find the install() command in the CMake project code that corresponds to this?

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if("x${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT}x" STREQUAL "xUnspecifiedx" OR NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT)
  list(APPEND CMAKE_ABSOLUTE_DESTINATION_FILES
   "/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/include/g2o/freeglut/freeglut_minimal.h")
  if(CMAKE_WARN_ON_ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_DESTINATION)
    message(WARNING "ABSOLUTE path INSTALL DESTINATION : ${CMAKE_ABSOLUTE_DESTINATION_FILES}")
  endif()
  if(CMAKE_ERROR_ON_ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_DESTINATION)
    message(FATAL_ERROR "ABSOLUTE path INSTALL DESTINATION forbidden (by caller): ${CMAKE_ABSOLUTE_DESTINATION_FILES}")
  endif()
file(INSTALL DESTINATION "/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/include/g2o/freeglut" TYPE FILE FILES "/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/g2o/EXTERNAL/freeglut/freeglut_minimal.h")
endif()

at the last line there’s the INSTALL DESTiNATION and all around the file there’s Cmake_Install_COMPONENT

6

Where is the command that tries to install libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal.so?

7

it must be in another one, this system is kind of deep. But as I said on top that the file do exist in the specified directory

8

The complaint is about the destination not existing.

9

that’s exactly my problem, the destination and the file both exist but I am getting this error.
someone else installed the same thing as me and it worked for him, so I am kind of baffeled on the problem

10

Wait, sorry, I got this confused with another thread I read today. The problem is the "" in the middle of the argument. CMake is parsing it as EXISTS "$ENV{DESTDIR}/home/blah/blah" ".so" which is not valid syntax for the EXISTS predicate of a conditional expression.

12

Problem fixed, what I did was ignore the modification on these 2 lines in ccmake. :

- CMAKE_RELWITHDEBINFO_POSTFIX : ""
- CMAKE_MINSIZEREL_POSTFIX : ""

so instead of “” I left it empty