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