Just tried compiling the latest version of KiCad direct from source. For the "INSTALL_PREFIX" I specified a directory within my home directory. This was to prevent the new build from impacting my system.
After building I attempted to install as the current user. This should be fine but it turned out to have problems. Looks like "/usr/local/share/kicad/resources" is being written to despite the newly provided installation prefix. Here is the result: -- Installing: /home/william/Applications/kicad/share/applications/org.kicad.pcbnew.desktop -- Installing: /home/william/Applications/kicad/share/applications/org.kicad.bitmap2component.desktop -- Installing: /home/william/Applications/kicad/share/metainfo -- Installing: /home/william/Applications/kicad/share/metainfo/org.kicad.kicad.metainfo.xml CMake Error at resources/bitmaps_png/cmake_install.cmake:54 (file): file cannot create directory: /usr/local/share/kicad/resources. Maybe need administrative privileges. Call Stack (most recent call first): resources/cmake_install.cmake:63 (include) cmake_install.cmake:57 (include) FAILED: CMakeFiles/install.util cd /home/william/Source/kicad/build/release && /usr/bin/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. It mostly works, but not all portions of the install script adhere to the requested install prefix. I used the build command: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/william/Applications/kicad -G Ninja ../../ Performing a build / install into a user home folder should not require superuser privileges. If there was a good reason then fine, but this error looks like an oversight so I thought I should make note of it here. Thanks for the great software, William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/ba08aa7b-2cc4-4a41-ac29-ae4ea7c112dfn%40kicad.org.
