in reply to make install failing with text file busy error

Note that "text file" may be a little bit misleading here. It does not mean a file containing ASCII text, like e.g. a README document. "text" in this context means executable machine code, i.e. a (binary) program or a library used by a program. Look what file can't be unlinked, and search it in the list of running programs (top / ps). Terminate that program after you have made sure that doing so won't do any harm to the system.

Alexander

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Re^2: make install failing with text file busy error
by rmokri (Initiate) on Dec 15, 2010 at 18:32 UTC
    Thank you for the suggestion to look for anything using the file which I did with great vigor. As I did not find any process using this file nor anyone else using it, I decided to try the last resort step of renaming the file and trying the make install which worked!