On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 18:35 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Murdok Petrovsky wrote these words on 07/03/11 13:15 CST: > > I've downloaded and installed fakeroot and fakechroot. > > > > Now my question how can i do make install on fakechroot, > > > > Makepkg of archlinux use fakeroot but nobody can't explain how it works > > Sorry, can't help you with these. I've never needed or used them.
Neither, but from what I can find online, they're doing some magic with ptrace and/or LD_PRELOAD. The docs make it sound like they're using some sort of trick to make child processes think they're running as root when they're not? Weird... Simon.
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