This will make it easier for me to support multple different Kicads installed at the same time on a system--so you can have Kicad-GAL and Kicad-Github and Kicad-GAL-Github, until the item on the CERN roadmap that moves all that stuff is completed.
Adam Wolf W&L On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for bringing an understanding to the problem, casting light on it. > > > > But I think there is just something fundamentally too risky doing > > rm -rf <anything> > > as root. > > So we will have to find a better way. I have wanted to support installing > on linux into > home, i.e. ~, and this would remove the need to install as root, or ever > becoming it. > > So I think the real solution will have to wait a couple of weeks. We can > install into > home, and let the distro managers install where they want to. > > > > Dick > > > > > > On 10/23/2013 12:09 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: > > Dear Dick, > > Nothing to do with that, the directory I use is the default one > > ~/kicad-sources. The reason why "sudo rm" it is needed is because the > > "sudo make install" writes "install_manifest.txt" inside build/ > > > > The user is not building any protected dir because sudo is just used > > in the rm command. > > > > by the way, you might want to to change the "make" with "make -j 4". > > Sensibly faster on modern machines. > > > > again, glad to help. > > Fabrizio > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> # line 129, 151, 159 > >>>> sudo rm -rf build && mkdir build && cd build > >>> > >>> sudo was missing on 3 lines, got that. (A patch would make this > clearer.) > >>> > >>> But I refuse to have the user building in a protected directory. sudo > should not be > >>> necessary to remove the build directory, so there is something else > wrong here. > >>> I am rejecting this until we can get a better handle on this problem. > >> > >> > >> Fabrizio, > >> > >> Where are we creating the build directory? > >> > >> That's the bug. > >> > >> So we have a partial fix committed, and need to work through the build > directory location, > >> and creation. > >> > >> > >> Dick > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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