Thanks for the input. I am more at home with BSD, however, I have noticed that on default installs of linux distros when attempting to run configure, a package is seen as not installed unless I run it as at least sudo. I am aware that these things can be changed however, since the system is for development I just muttle through with sudo. I know these types of inquiries make me look like a complete novice, however, Linux seems to do stupid things with permissions that are not necessary. Like having to be root just to cat /var/log/messages.
Sorry if the questions seemed very rudimentary, however, I have learned to swallow pride and just ask the question. Furthering in that frame of thought. Just prior to sending you this message, I attempted to build after cleaning with make clean, and buildgen from the top level directory again, and it all of a sudden worked after two days of cleaning with make clean, and the buildgen clean command, and having the same incomplete results. I have not installed anything, because I am have been getting ready for the spring semester, but now it has complied and seems to have installed fine. I still cannot get anything to recognize when my blackberry 8830 is connected, nor does the usb power work. I am sure that I have not installed the correct packages for the power-through-usb driver to be working, however, what should I do to troubleshoot the base install that simply does not see any device connected? Thanks again for the reply. On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:45 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:10 -0500, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1) In what directory am I supposed to initiate the build? > > Top level of the archive. > > > 2) Why would btools fail to build while in barry-<version> however > > complete successfully while in barry-<version>/barry but nothing seems > > to actually be installed, after "sudo make install." > > >From your logs, it doesn't succeed, because you're missing the boost > development libraries. You need boost-devel or libboost-devel or > boost-dev or something like that. > > > 3) Do I have to be root, or can I be a sudoer to complete the build > > process and install barry? > > You never need to be root to build anything. You only ever need root > permissions to run 'make install', which actually installs the built > files system wide. You never need to be root to do the 'configure' or > 'make' stage of any build, and indeed you should *not* run these as > root. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
