Yes. So either pass that arg to sudo to set the home properly, or just don't to "sudo" when you do make install (if you're installing into a movable tree).
Or maybe there is another possible solution that involves changing how the distribution and or the docs build works? Robby On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafk...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > Won't that make .racket be owned by root again when some preference file > gets written out during 'make install'? > > On 01/03/2011 12:47 PM, Robby Findler wrote: >> Ah. So the problem was that root owned the .racket directory itself. >> >> Should I revert my commit? >> >> Robby >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafk...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >>> On 01/03/2011 10:52 AM, Robby Findler wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >>>>> At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:39:28 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: >>>>>> I've changed the handin server so it puts its docs in the main tree >>>>>> like (I believe) it is supposed to. >>>>> That breaks the distribution build. The "handin-server" docs were >>>>> intentionally not installed into the main tree, because "handin-server" >>>>> is not included in the distribution. >>>> So what the irc person was doing is just not supposed to work, I guess? >>>> >>>> I'd still like to find out what preference was getting set, so if Jon >>>> tries again, that'd be interesting to me. >>> As of commit >>> >>> commit e6d45e2ae6804a73c9cea2a41d544c4a65b7a5d9 >>> Author: Robby Findler <ro...@racket-lang.org> >>> Date: Mon Jan 3 08:19:51 2011 -0600 >>> >>> a 'sudo make install' does not create the ~/.racket directory and things >>> install fine into /usr/local when --prefix=/usr/local is given to >>> `configure' >>> > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
