On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 06:10:42PM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:16:44 -0700, tbrowder wrote:
> > Given this invocation for a new installation of rakudo:
> >
> > perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar --prefix=/some/dir
> >
> > /some/dir needs to exist and belong to the user attempting the
> > installation. That usually forces the user to be root just to configure
> > and build rakudo. Then the build directory is polluted with root-owned
> > files.
> > [...]
> > Until that problem is solved, the installation instructions need to detail
> > the current requirements of an installation outside the build directory.
>
> This is the wrong queue for this ticket; please re-open at github's
> rakudo/star queue.
Perhaps it's also worth mentioning that variations of this issue (build with
one user and install with another) already exist in Rakudo Star's issue queue:
https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/23
https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/65
https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/70
Pm
