Makefile install target sometimes working, sometimes not - build

Question

I'm currently working on a project that should also provide a source package to be packaged into linux systems. Since I'm using monodevelop, I used
mdtool generate-makefiles AudioCuesheetEditor.sln --simple-makefiles
to generate makefiles,etc. But there is a little problem. On some system everything works fine when running the last step
make install
but sometimes not. The output then says
[root#VMFedora17 Downloads]# make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make pre-install-local-hook prefix=/usr/local
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make install-satellite-assemblies prefix=/usr/local
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib'
cp bin/Release /usr/local/lib/AudioCuesheetEditor
cp: omitting directory `bin/Release'
make[2]: *** [/usr/local/lib/AudioCuesheetEditor] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make[1]: *** [install-local] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sven/Downloads'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
This was run on a Fedora 17 Linux with KDE installed. On another Fedora 17 KDE everything went perfect.
Could somebody help me, where the error is?
Makefile can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/p/audiocuesheet/code/140/tree/trunk/Quellcode/AudioCuesheetEditor.make
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

From your output and the link you provided, I found the error in the following snippet:
install-local: $(ASSEMBLY) $(ASSEMBLY_MDB)
make pre-install-local-hook prefix=$(prefix)
make install-satellite-assemblies prefix=$(prefix)
mkdir -p '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(PACKAGE)'
$(call cp,$(ASSEMBLY),$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(PACKAGE))
I guess $(ASSEMBLY) was a directory, but I am not sure. And the command cp without the parameter -r will not copy the directory recursively. You can try to modify
$(call cp,$(ASSEMBLY),$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(PACKAGE))
to
$(call cp,-r,$(ASSEMBLY),$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(PACKAGE))
or
cp -r $(ASSEMBLY) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(PACKAGE)
Additionally, if you want to find out why the original works on one machine but not on the another, you can add a command:
echo $(ASSEMBLY)
before the above command to see if the output of them are different on different machines.