GC 2.3.7 in Karmic Kubuntu
Roger
aretae at magma.ca
Wed Nov 4 17:33:24 EST 2009
I agree it is a bit odd as all the files are in my home directory and I
did ./configure --enable-dbi without using sudo. Also, I did the same
compile on two computers one I had to use sudo make and the other I
didn't. Of course, I needed to use sudo make install on both.
Roger
Stephen R. Besch wrote:
> That's odd. Usually sudo is not required for 'make' - unless you've
> got the permissions on your source directory wrong - perhaps checking
> out using sudo, or running ./configure as root. You (the person making
> the build) should own all files in the source tree and have at least
> rw access to all those files. I would consider doing a suitable "chown
> -r" on your source tree.
>
> On the other hand, the 'make install' will require sudo if you install
> to a system directory. As I understand things, you can also specify a
> "prefix" to have GC install in a folder tree that you own, in which
> case sudo won't be needed at all.
>
> Stephen Besch
>
> Roger Miskowicz wrote:
>>
>> I think someone mention ownership problem and that is what the
>> compile problem was, using
>>
>> sudo make --- worked.
>>
>>
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