On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:56:48 -0500, Ben Anderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got Wesnoth svn yesterday while I was on fast internet. I > compiled it last night no problem, and played it from within src. > Today I tried `make install`, and was rather alarmed by an error > message I got: > mkdir: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ > python2.5/site-packages: Permission denied > I realize that I only got that error because I forgot to use sudo, but > that's not what alarmed me. I'm fairly certain that no 3rd-party > program should ever put anything in /System/. It's like /usr/lib/, > which is not where you should install stuff. Ivanovic said it's where > Python's PATH is. But is there no other location in its PATH? > > Maybe it is the only way to do it. But I think it should at least be > investigated (if it hasn't already been), because it seems very wrong > to me (and I did get a second opinion too).
I am pretty sure I ran accross the Linux version of this issue a while back and the solution was that someone made a configure option not to install the python tools in system wide library locations. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
