Problem with make install-libsass

[keesse]

Hi @straight-shoota, I wanted to build the markdown example from the Alizarin shard.
That required libsass.
When running make install-libsass, I got the following error:

# make install-libsass
BUILD="shared" make -C "libsass-3.4.5" install
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/kees/Crystal/markdown/lib/sass/libsass-3.4.5'
mkdir /usr/local/lib
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/lib’: File exists
make[1]: *** [Makefile:263: /usr/local/lib] Error 1

I looked at the Makefile but could not figure out how to change it to using an already existing /usr/local/lib, so I renamed it, to later copy it back.

Then the same happened with /usr/local/include.

So I managed to get it installed
I'm using Ubuntu 20.10 and Crystal 1.0.0

[straight-shoota]

Hey, thanks for reporting this.

The install-libsass recipe is just for convenience to install a matching version on systems where the usual package manager does not provide one. It delegates to make install in the checked-out libsass repo as the make output shows. The error is caused in libsass' makefile. That's out of scope for this repo

[straight-shoota]

Btw. on Ubuntu 20.10 you should be able to install a libsass binary package via apt install libsass1-dev and don't need the makefile recipe for that.

[keesse]

That was the first thing I tried, but could not.

# apt install libsass1-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libsass1-dev

Do I need a PPA?

[straight-shoota]

Ah, sry, it's libsass-dev. The non-dev package is libsass1. Confusing names 🤷

[keesse]

Yes, that installs, but could not find it when starting...
Thank you for your support!