On 05/31/2011 05:44 AM, Owen wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:29:30 -0400 > Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> This of course is the sequence that we dutifully advise for building >> Scribus. >> >> What I have noticed is that one can skip running 'make' separately, >> and just run >> >> cmake -DWANT_yadayadayada... >> >> then >> >> make install >> >> in which case make first compiles, then installs, and I can't really >> tell a difference. >> >> Is there any reason to run 'make' all by itself? > > Here is my pitch on the matter. > > make is run as a user. > > As long as the install goes in a user directory then there should be no > problem. > > But if it goes in a root directory like /opt, then you need su or sudo > to install. > > Ok, so run make install as root, then that kind of changes all the > permissions in the build directory. Maybe no big deal, but my > preference is to have user files owned by the user. > Ah, yes, forgot about that since I'm always putting svn versions into my /home directory...
Greg
