On Sat, Apr 09 2022, Laurence Finston wrote:
> If there is some problem with library locations or whatever, then this
> might be solvable in the usual way by appropriate settings of
> environment variables and/or changes to configure.ac so that they're
> found or something along those lines. If i
I would be glad if someone let me know about problems of this kind when
installing it in a non-standard
location. However, I don't want to make assumptions about what other people
would want.
> Gesendet: Samstag, 09. April 2022 um 17:37 Uhr
> Von: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz"
> An: &qu
On Sat, Apr 09 2022, Laurence Finston wrote:
> Most people have their own computers nowadays and I never log on as
> `root' or as a user with root permissions unless I have to. None of
> the software I've worked on in the last 10 years plus requires root
> permissions for anything (installing or
On Tue, Apr 05 2022, Laurence Finston wrote:
[...]
> I haven't checked this, but apart from being able to install in, e.g.,
> /usr/bin, I can't imagine there would be any need for `root'
> permissions with respect to MDK.
The default would actually be /usr/local/bin, if i recall correctly, and
n
Unix in 1991 and
GNU/Linux around 2003. It's too bad, in a way, but I've never felt that I was
part of a "band".
> Gesendet: Samstag, 09. April 2022 um 03:01 Uhr
> Von: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz"
> An: "Laurence Finston"
> Cc: bug-mdk@gnu.org
In the section "1.3 Basic installation" of the manual, it states:
"You can run these programs from within their directories, but I recommend you
to install
them in proper locations using make install from a root shell."
It might be worth mentioning that the executables could be placed somewhere
