Hi, Dmitry Nikolaev <[email protected]> skribis:
> Hi. I'm trying to build Xawtv in GuixSD to use my webcamera during > screencasts. I wrote package defintion for xawtv, it passes configuration > and build phases, but fails on install phase with error: > > /gnu/store/6908gy3pws0ccys49ni98idwnicchlr2-coreutils-8.26/bin/install: > invalid user ‘root’ > > What do I need to do to avoid this error? Most likely the makefile does “install -o root …”, but there’s no “root” user in the build environment. To work around this, simply remove that “-o root” from the makefile, along these lines: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/hurd.scm#n265 HTH, Ludo’.
