On May 15, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Hamish wrote: > Hamish: >>> finally we should consider what happens on Ubuntu and >>> possibly OSX where by default there is no root pw & sudo >>> is used; > William: >> I'm not sure what you mean. I've never had any >> problems running sudo, either directly in the terminal or >> from a script. It *always* asks for a password and you >> type in your login (admin) password, and it doesn't matter >> that root has a null password. > > I was talking about the -s flag which runs > su -c "make ... install" > > I don't remember if I notified the list or not, but I've now > added a -u flag to run > sudo make ... install > instead, for those systems which need it. > > > so have you been running "sudo g.extension ..." ? > No, i meant sudo for other things.
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