On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Charles Curley wrote: > > Question: are you expecting me to compile as root?
> > The "make install" phase includes some compilation, which I thought > > a bit odd. > > There are still some compilations going on during the "installation" > phase. Ah. The make World must have failed - it does a make -k, so if one part fails it keeps going. Since some parts have failed, when you do make install as root, it tries again; sometimes this rewrites bits that worked before, so effectively chowning them to root. The next time you try to run make World as an ordinary user, you can't write to these files because the ownership has changed. In summary, you should *not* need to build as root, but you do need to be root to install. IIRC root does need write access on the build tree while doing make install, which is not ideal. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
