[QUESTION] Text file busy make: *** [Makefile:181: install] Error 1

[nonumeros]

Question

The latest installation of kak would not let me continue and returned a

cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/local/bin/kak': Text file busy
make: *** [Makefile:181: install] Error 1

All the kak sessions had to be killed off before continuing with the installation. (Thought of mentioning it as it hadn't happened before. This is the first time actually).

[Screwtapello]

"Text file busy" is the standard POSIX error for when something tries to write to a program while it's running, or run a program while it's being written to.

make install might be able to work around this by using cp -f (which will delete the destination file and try again), but in general it's a bad idea to have version mismatches between Kakoune clients, Kakoune servers, and the standard library. Quitting all Kakoune sessions before an upgrade is a much better way to go about it.