# make: \*\*\* \[Makefile:108: install\] Error 1
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982
**Category:** Usage
**Tags:** os:linux
**Created:** [June 8, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982 "2024-06-08T03:24:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/1 "2024-06-08T03:24:53Z")
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:
```auto
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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### Author:  [@jtxa](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jtxa)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/2 "2024-06-08T09:06:05Z")
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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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/3 "2024-06-09T11:13:58Z")
First sorry for the late reply I had a busy 24hrs.
The line below is the line at
> EXTERNAL/freeglut/cmake\_install.cmake
```auto
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 _$ENV{DESTDIR}_ before _/home_ and it also gave me the same error.
I am new to this so I did not understand what you meant by superfluous space except for the quotations that I removed but put again.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/4 "2024-06-10T13:15:14Z")
> [@moajouz](#):
>
> ` if(EXISTS "$ENV{DESTDIR}/home/moajouz/AUB/HSLAM/Thirdparty/CompiledLibs/lib/libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal"".so" AND`
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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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/5 "2024-06-10T13:30:25Z")
```auto
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
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/6 "2024-06-10T13:32:45Z")
Where is the command that tries to install `libg2o_ext_freeglut_minimal.so`?
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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/7 "2024-06-10T15:02:29Z")
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
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/8 "2024-06-10T16:52:00Z")
The complaint is about the _destination_ not existing.
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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/9 "2024-06-10T16:54:40Z")
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
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/10 "2024-06-10T16:56:12Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@moajouz](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/moajouz)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2024, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/make-makefile-install-error-1/10982/12 "2024-06-12T11:06:31Z")
Problem fixed, what I did was ignore the modification on these 2 lines in ccmake. :
```auto
- CMAKE_RELWITHDEBINFO_POSTFIX : ""
- CMAKE_MINSIZEREL_POSTFIX : ""
```
so instead of “” I left it empty